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Monday, 19 October 2015

Basic sound terms

Incidental Sound: Non diegetic sounds which create an atmosphere to an action or revelation.


Non Diegetic: Sound that characters cannot hear and are added post production stage. This includes a soundtrack or a voice over. 

Diegetic sound: sound that can be heard by characters within a scene of media.

Score: the musical component of a programme's soundtrack, usually composed specifically for the scene.

Sound Effect: sounds that are added to a film during the post production stage.

Sound Motif: a sound effect combination of sound effects that are associated with a particular character, setting, situation or idea.

Contrapuntal Sound: Either a soundtrack, non diegetic or diegetic sound used to juxtapose the visual shown on screen, helps to change the atmosphere or meaning.

Dialogue: Words spoken by the characters.

Sound Bridge: sound that leads in or out of a scene. They can occur at the beginning of one scene and carries on into the next scene/shot.

Voice Over: When a voice, often that of a character in the film, is heard while we see an image of a space and time in which the character is not actually speaking.

Ambient Sound: The background sound which is presented in a scene or location. Typical ambient sounds include wind, cars and birds.

Volume Control: When the volume is controlled depending on the situation.

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