Sound

Question 1

What are the three perceptual properties of film sound?

Answer 1

Loudness, Pitch, and Timbre

Question 2

What are the three types of sound in cinema?

Answer 2

Speech, Music, Noise

Question 3

What does “futzing” the sound mean?

Answer 3

It’s a Hollywood term for manipulating sound electronically

Question 4

What is sound mixing?

Answer 4

Selection and reworking of sounds to create a pattern that links events

Question 5

What are the four dimensions of film sound?

Answer 5

Rhythm, Fidelity, Spatial, and Temporal

Question 6

What are the properties of space?

Answer 6

Diegetic and Non-Diegetic

Question 7

What are the two sub-properties of diegetic sound?

Answer 7

External and Internal

Question 8

What are the properties of time?

Answer 8

Synchronous sound and Asynchronous sound

Question 9

What is synchronous sound?

Answer 9

Sound that matches with image

Question 10

What is Asynchronous sound?

Answer 10

Sound that is out of sync with image

Question 11

What are the two properties of time manipulation?

Answer 11

Simultaneous sound and Non-simultaneous sound

Question 12

What is sonic flashback?

Answer 12

Sonic flash back happens when we see a character in silent while we hear non diegetic sound inside the character’s head

Question 13

What is loudness?

Answer 13

The volume of sound of the film

Question 14

What is pitch?

Answer 14

The perceived highness or lowness of a sound (for example, a sound in a film shot at 10 fps is a lower pitch compared to another shot in 30 fps). In other word, speeding a video will make us sound like chipmunks.

Question 15

What is timbre?

Answer 15

Harmonic components of sound, give it a certain color or tonal quality (for example, the difference between a piano and a violin playing the same notes)

Question 16

What is simultaneous sound?

Answer 16

Sound that takes place at the same time as the image in terms of the story’s events. (For example, characters speaking on screen).

Question 17

What is rhythm?

Answer 17

Is sound that occupies a duration; it involves a beat or pulse; a tempo or pace

Question 18

What is fidelity?

Answer 18

A sound that is connected to its picture from any source. (For example, a we see a dog barking, and we hear that barking sound, is fidelity; but that barking noise can still be manipulated, meaning that barking noise may not even came from the same dog on picture).

Question 19

What is spatial?

Answer 19

Refers to the conditions of space, where the sound originates from.

Question 20

What is temporal?

Answer 20

Refers to sound relations to visual elements that take place in a specific time

Question 21

What is diegetic sound?

Answer 21

Sound that has a source in the story world

Question 22

What is non-diegetic sound?

Answer 22

Sound that has a source outside of the story world

Question 23

What is external diegitic sound?

Answer 23

Sound that has a physical source in the scene

Question 24

What is internal diegetic sound?

Answer 24

Sound from the inside the mind of the character