Sound

·       Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound:

Diegetic - The sound which should logically be there in the diegesis (the ‘world’) of the text (e.g. applause in a sports award show.)

Non diegetic sound - Sound which would not logically be there in the diegesis (most music, voice overs.)

·       Synchronous and asynchronous sound:

Synchronous sounds are those sounds which are synchronized or matched with what is viewed.

Asynchronous sound effects are not matched with a visible source of the sound on screen. Such sounds are included so as to provide an appropriate emotional nuance, and they may also add to the realism of the film.

 

·       Sound perspective - A sound’s position in space as perceived by the viewer given by volume, timbre, and pitch.

·       Sound effects - A sound other than speech or music made artificially for use in a play, movie, or other broadcast production.

·       Sound motif - A sound effect or combination of sound effects that are associated with a particular character, setting, situation or idea through the film. 

·       Sound bridge - At the beginning of one scene, the sound from the previous scene carries over briefly before the sound from the new scene begins.

·       Dialogue - Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

·       Voiceover - Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative.

·       Mode of address - The way a media product ‘speaks’ to its audience.

·       Direct address - The vocative case (abbreviated) is the case used for a noun identifying the person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed.

·       Sound mixing - The process during the post-production stage of a film or a television program in which the collection of recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels along with adjusting the many attributes of the sounds such as the source signals’ level.

 

Soundtrack

·       Score - A musical composition's written format.

·       Incidental music - It is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

·       Themes, stings and motifs –

Themes - melodic subject of a musical composition.

Stings - A sting is a short musical phrase, primarily used in broadcasting and films as a form of punctuation.

Motifs - a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music.

·       Ambient sound – The normal sound which exists in a particular scene or location e.g. Traffic noise, bird song and crowd chatter.

 

We were given different words linked with sound, to define. I researched the words on the internet and found the definitions for each of the words.