Unit 8: Sound

Question 1

Elements of a soundtrack

Answer 1

Spoken words
• Sound effects
• Music
• Silence

Question 2

Spoken Words

Answer 2

• Dialogue and monologues

* Narration

Question 3

Dialogue

Answer 3

• Text and subtext
• Volume
• Pitch
• Speech Characteristics
• Acoustic Qualities
• Voice Over

Question 4

Sound Effects

Answer 4

• Sounds made by objects

* Sounds made by people (other than spoken words)

Question 5

what do sound effects do

Answer 5

Define location
• Lend mood to an environment
• Portray the Environment’s Impact on Characters

Question 6

Ambient Sound

Answer 6

•The sound atmosphere of a place that people tend not to notice.

Question 7

Silence

Answer 7

No sound.

Question 8

Sound Hierarchy

Answer 8

•The relative priority given to dialogue, effects, music in a given scene.
•In most cases, dialogue is considered the most important of these sounds and rests atop of the sound
hierarchy.

Question 9

Dialogue Overlap

Answer 9

In editing a scene, arranging the cut so that a bit of dialogue coming from Shot A is heard under a
shot which shows another character or another element in the scene.

Question 10

Overlapping Dialogue

Answer 10

Mixing two or more characters speech to imitate the rhythm of speech.

Question 11

Diegetic Sound

Answer 11

•Any voice, musical passage, or sound effect presented as originating from a source within the film’s
world.

Question 12

Nondiegetic Sound

Answer 12

Sound, such as mood music or a narrator’s commentary, represented as coming from a source
outside the space of the narrative.

Question 13

Semi-diegetic sound

Answer 13

•sound that is neither strictly diegetic or non-diegetic.

Question 14

Sound Perspective:

Answer 14

•The apparent location and distance of a sound source.

Question 15

•Aural POV

Answer 15

-subjective sound from the perspective of the character.

Question 16

On screen Sound

Answer 16

Sound that derives from an on-screen source such as someone viewers see and hear sneezing.

Question 17

Off screen sound

Answer 17

Sound that does not derive from an on-screen source, such as an unseen dog barking or music that is
not made by anyone within the frame.

Question 18

Synchronous sound

Answer 18

•Sound that is matched temporally with the movements occurring in the images, as when dialogue
corresponds to lip movements.

Question 19

Asynchronous sound

Answer 19

Sound that is not matched temporally within the movements occurring in the image, as when
dialogue is out of synchronization with lip movements.

Question 20

Simultaneous Sound

Answer 20

•sound takes place at the same time as the image in terms of the story events.
“mickey mousing”

Question 21

Non Simultaneous Sound

Answer 21

•it is possible for the sound we hear to occur earlier or later in the story than the events which we see
in the image.
• for example, sonic flashback, we might see a character onscreen in the present but hear another
character’s voice from an earlier scene.

Question 22

Voice-Off–

Answer 22

-A voice that originates from a speaker who can be inferred to be present in the scene but
show is no visible onscreen.

Question 23

Voiceover:

Answer 23

A voice whose source is neither visible in the frame nor implied to be offscreen; it
typically narrates the film’s images such as in a flashback or in the commentary in a documentary
film.

Question 24

internal diegetic sound

Answer 24

• comes from inside the mind of the character

* can not be heard by other characters

Question 25

External diegetic sound

Answer 25

•has a physical source in the scene

Question 26

Interior monologue

Answer 26

• one variation on the mental, subjective point of view of an individual character that allows us to see
a character and hear that character’s thoughts (in his or her won voice, even though the character’s
lips don’t move)

Question 27

Hard Cut (Sound)`

Answer 27

A simple, direct cut from one shot or scene to the next in which a change in the soundtrack is as
abrupt as it is in the image track.

Question 28

Sound Lag

Answer 28

Sound from one scene lingers over as we see images from the next.

Question 29

Sound Advance

Answer 29

A type of sound bridge where we hear a sound before we see its associated image.

Question 30

Sound Match

Answer 30

Sound belonging to one scene followed by a similar or identical sound belonging to the next scene.

Question 31

Stinger

Answer 31

A sudden and sharp accent; most often applied to music (a loud chord or cymbal crash) but equally
appropriate to speech (a shout or loud cry) or effects (gun shot or door slamming).

Question 32

Ritardando

Answer 32

A smooth and usually gradual slowing down of tempo.

Question 33

Loudness

Answer 33

sounds we hear result from vibrations in the air

Question 34

Pitch

Answer 34

the frequency of sound vibrations

Question 35

Timbre

Answer 35

the harmonic component of soundto give it a certain color or tone quality

Question 36

Foley process

Answer 36

creates noise tailored to each scene

Question 37

Non-simultaneous

Answer 37

Sound from earlier in

story than image

Question 38

Sound flashback

Answer 38

Sound marked as past put

over images

Question 39

Image flashforward

Answer 39

Sound marked as past put
over images (e.g. sound of
a Pierre Trudeau speech
put over images of Canada
today

Question 40

Simultaneous

Answer 40

Image and sound
take place at same
time

Question 41

Non-simultaneous

Answer 41

Sound from later in

story than image

Question 42

Sound flashforward;

Answer 42

image flashback with
sound continuing in the
present; character
narrating earlier events