Lecture 1: The Sound Track and Film Narrative Part 1 Flashcards
1
Q
what appears on the screen
A
image track
2
Q
what one hears through the speakers
A
sound track
3
Q
films that tell a story through actions and interactions of characters
A
Narrative films
4
Q
Aesthetic priority favoring the film’s construction of a world that makes sense to us rather than one that is faithful as possible to the real world
A
Clarity
5
Q
The principle of recording how something actually sounds, rarely the dominant principle
A
Fidelity
6
Q
How many components of the sound track are there?
A
3
7
Q
- Human speech in language
A
Dialogue/speech
8
Q
- All sounds other than music or speech (sfx, effects,fx, or noise)
A
Sound effects
9
Q
- In silent film performance, the principal sound element. In sound film, one of the three components of the sound track
A
Music
10
Q
Dialogue typically occupies the foreground or background? music and effects occupy the foreground or background?
A
foreground, background
11
Q
a distinction of visual staging carried over to film and affecting the sound track as well
A
foreground/background
