Sound Terms

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Sound Terms

• Types of Sound in Films
• Vocals
• Music
• Sound Effects
• Silence

• New Terms
• Sound Effects
• Sound Dissolves
• Asynchronous Sound
• Ambient Sound
• Diegetic
• Non-Diegetic

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Sound Effects

• A sound in film other than vocals or music.
  Three examples of sound effects are a door
  slamming, a dog barking, and thunder

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Sound Dissolves

• A transition in which a sound begins to fade out
  as the next sound fades in and overlaps the first
  sound before replacing it

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Asynchronous Sound

• A sound from a source onscreen that precedes or
  follows its source, such as words that are not
  synchronized with lip movements

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Ambient Sound

• The pervading sound atmosphere of a place that
  people tend not to notice. In a woods, for
  example, ambient sound may consist mainly of
  trees moving in the breeze and insects heard at
  low volumes

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Diegetic Non-Diegetic

• Diegetic sound is any sound presented as
  originated from a source within the film's world 
  Diegetic sound can be either on screen or off
  screen depending on whatever its source is within
  the frame or outside the frame.  Also called
  actual sound.
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• Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from
  the a source outside story space.

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Foley Artist

• Sound specialist who uses various objects such as
  different types of floor surfaces (usually in a
  Foley studio) to simulate sounds and synchronize
  them with their corresponding movie images.

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Jump Cut

• A transition between shots that causes a jarring
  or even shocking shift in space, time or action.
  A jump cut may be used to shorten the depiction
  of an event or to disorient viewers, or both.