Friday 30 September 2011

Sound Glossary

Diegetic - Sound or Music that comes from within the film that is not added in post production.
Non Diegetic - Sounds, Music or Voice overs that are later added to the film in post production.
Ambient - The natural sound that comes from the scenes environment.
SFX- Sounds that are added to create effect on the film or creates effects on sounds that already exist.
Mood - Helps create a certain atmosphere to the film to give effect on how to react or how the characters are feeling at the precise moment.
Tone - Is the Quality, Pitch, Strength, the Source of the sound and The character of the sound.
Genre - Is a category of artist compositions that are put to the background of the film's scenes.
Theme Music - A piece of music specifically written to go along side the film, that will be played at the beginning of the film.
Voice Overs - A narrative that is not accompanied by and image or footage of the person.
Musical Score - Can be the most memorable part of the film, where the composer creates a piece of music so the audience will recognize and remember that importance scene.
Synchronous Sound - Sound that is recorded at the time of filming.
Asynchronous Sound - Sound that is not recorded at the same time as filming but it precisely edited to the film.
Contrapuntal - When the sound doesn't fit the scene but is purposely put there to create dramatic effect in the film.
Silence - when a scene is completely silent to give effect to the audience to make them suspect someone or to give effect of what one of the characters might be hearing at the time.
Selective Sound - The retention of sounds to make some sounds more recognizable to create dramatic effect and atmosphere.
Sound Bridges - A sound that is used to ease the transitions between each shots and to create relation to each frame when the transition between Shots/Scenes happen.