Week 14

Question 1

The “Silent Era: 1895-circa 1927

Answer 1

-Musical accompaniment to screened films
-Commentaries
-Sound effects
-During shooting: “mood music”

Question 2

The Sound Era

Answer 2

-Experiments from 1895 onwards
-Early 1920s: optical sound recording
-The Jazz Singer, 1927
-Early musicals (from 1928)
-Resistance to synchronized sound
-Chaplins Modern Times, 1936

Question 3

Creating Film Sound

Answer 3

-Voice, music, and sound effects/noise/ambient sound combined via sound-mixing process
-Sounds are selected, altered & combined

Question 4

Perceptual Properties of Sound

Answer 4

-Volume, pitch, and timbre
-Timbre= the distinctive tonal quality of sound

Question 5

Rhythm in Sound

Answer 5

-Beat, tempo, & pattern of accents in sound
-In music, but also sound effects, speech
-Rhythm in sound may work with or against rhythm of
-Mise-en-scene
-Camera movement
-and/or editing

Question 6

Fidelity in Sound

Answer 6

-Degree to which the sound we hear is faithful to the source of the sound as we conceive it
-Regardless of actual source

Question 7

Diegetic Sound

Answer 7

originates from within the diegesis, on-or offscreen
-may be simultaneous……… occurs at same time we see it being produced on screen

Question 8

Nondiegetic Sound

Answer 8

has no probable source within the story world

Question 9

Non-simultaneous sound

Answer 9

flash backs or flash forwards

Question 10

Simultaneous sounds

Answer 10

-occurs at same time we see it
-either synchronous or asynchronous

Question 11

Synchronous sound

Answer 11

sounds exactly match their source onscreen

Question 12

Asynchronous sound

Answer 12

they do not exactly match their source