Friday, 26 October 2012

Sound Glossary

Non-diegetic sound - Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action:
  • Narrator's commetry
  • Sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
  • Mood music

Diegetic sound - Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present in the action:
  • Voices of characters
  • sounds made by the objects in the story
  • Music represented to be comeing from the instruments in the story

Soundtrack - A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack

Theme tune - Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_music

Incidental music - Music composed to accompany the action or dialogue of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes or acts

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dialogue

Sound effects (FX) - An imitative sound, as of thunder or an explosion, produced artificially for theatrical purposes, as for a film, play, or radio programme

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sound+effect

Ambient sound - Ambient sound or ambient audio means the background sounds which are present in a scene or location

Dialogue - Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dialogue

Voice-over - The voice of an unseen narrator, or of an onscreen character not seen speaking, in a movie or a television broadcast

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dialogue

1 comment:

  1. Ensure you extend the glossary each week, adding new terminology and revising regularly.

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