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What is Sound Design
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The art and science of telling stories through sound
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What is dead air
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Silence on airways
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What is the job of the sound deigner
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provides valuable contributions to the story from its conception
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What are the 4 components of sound design
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sfx, dialog, music, and silence
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What is suspension
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selectivly eliminating sound before a major event occurs
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What is the difference between Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds
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diegetic sounds refer to those of the presentation on or off screen and non digitec occurs outside the scene. thesee are sounds that the audience hears but the character does not
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What are principle sfx
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big production sounds.Ex.. explosives, lazer guns and monster sounds
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What are Editorial SFX
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Everyday sounds(Foley)
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What is the difference between narrative and grammatical SFX
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Narrative are sounds that give personality to the character through sound Grammaticle's role is the contexual element/continuity an example is ambiance
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What is a wild track recording
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recordings made on location that may include editorial sound effects as well as backround ambiances useful for recording audio that would be hard to reproduce in the studio
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What is foley
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Sound recration
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What are ambiences and backgronds
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continious soundscapes to set mood
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What are stingers
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short sound effects added to ambience such as a car horn in traffic
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What is the name of the spceial scream that has been used in movies since the 1950
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The Wilhelm Scream
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What are sound archetypes
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universally understood sounds
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What dos it mean when we segue between two scenes
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Transition between scenes tied through music
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What is a motif
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musical phrases and themes that identify characters and reoccuring themes
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What is programmatic music
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music that depicts the visual element of the story with a distint beginning, middle and end
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what is anempathetic music
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it is the juxtaposition of polar opposite visuals and music
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What is Juxtaposition or counterpoint?
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contrating musical ideas with visuals
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What is underscore music
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non diagetic used to enhance the informational or emotional impact
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what is source music
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pre existing music, licensed for use in film, may be incidental
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What is incidental music
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backround music that comes from a stereo radio. pre recorded music from an artist added during postproduction
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what is streaming
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technology allowing instantenious access to multimedia
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how does streaming works
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files tranmitted as steady stream of binary data
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what form of technology use streaming
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ups,satalite,radio,cable,cell phones,web case, web soundtrack, e-commerce and on demand audio
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what is codec
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encode/ decode- programing/ hardware that compresses or decompresses an audio file
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how do lossy codec work
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reduces file size by permantly discarding useless info
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how do lossless codec work
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reduces file size with out permantly discard
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what file formats use lossy codec
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real window media player shockwave flash
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what file use lossless codec
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quik time
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what is the mpeg organiztion
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motion picture expert group. for developing video and audio coding stand aids
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what does phases of mpeg file represent
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families coding algoriths
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what is an .mp3
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relitivly high fidelity audio filr format capable of producing near cd quality
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who owns the mp3 codec
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fraunhofer institute
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what is the minimal audition theshold
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minimal amount we can hear(hearing range)
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what is masking
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loud sound cover up softer sounds
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what is joint stereo
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reduce file by encoding share data once
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how does the reservior of bytes work
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audio file are divided into frame each frame contian
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what is huffman encoding
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reduces redoudenous from audio after psycoucstics encoding complete
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what is the bit rate for stereo cd quailty audio
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16 bit
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know the mpg bit rate and their usage
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64 voice 96 kbp hiroice 128 internet 160 192 music for personal connection
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What is a mono mix
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one channel mix
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what is a stereo mix
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two channel
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how does dolby stereo work
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it utalizes only 2 sound channels produced using DS-4 encoded/decoded
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what does the Lion Roar represent
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power
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what does the chimpanzee represent
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playfulness
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what does the cat purring
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sucuduction
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what does owls represent
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wisdom
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what do donkeys represent
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stubborness
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water flowing represents what
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rebirth, awaking, peace
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fingernails scraping blackbord represent what
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pain
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glass shattering associated with what
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fragility
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What are the use for mp3's at 64kbps
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voice
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what is the use for 96kbps
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high quality voice and low quality music
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what is 128kbps used for
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internet
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what is the use for 160-192
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personal collection
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what is the use for 256-320
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best mp3 quality u can make
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what is walter murch known for
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apocolopse now. he came up with the term sound design
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what is the defult gap between tracks on a red book cd
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