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Details Title: Test #2 Description: BC/ENG 290 Professor Ness Total Flash Cards: 31 Created: 11/16/2007 03:37:33	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term leit motif Definition reoccuring musical passage associated with person object or place Term diegetic music Definition music for which there is a visible source on screen, (music box, woman singing) Term walla Definition crowd noise Term ADR Definition Automated dialogue replacement, actors what the film footage and re-record their lines to be dubbed inot the sound track. Term room tone Definition the aural properties of a location when nothing is happening Term direct sound Definition sound recorded directly from the source Term reflected sound Definition captured as sounds bounce from the walls and sets, to give a sense of space. Term cinéma vérité Definition cinema truth, a style of documenteary film making first practiced in the late 1050s that used unobtrusive lightweight cameras and sound equipment to capture real life situation. Term spotting Definition Determing the spot to place music or effects on a film. Term foley artist Definition THE MEMBER OF A SOUND CREW WHO GENERATES LIVE SYNCRONIZED SOUND EFFECTS SUCH AS FOOTSTEPS, THE RUSTLE OF CLOTHING, OR A KEY TURNING IN A LOCK, WILE WATCHING THE projected film. Named after jack foley, foley tracks are eventually mixed with other audio tracks. Term click track Definition holes punched into the film corresponding to the beat of a metronome that helps actors musicians and composer keep the rythm of the action Term stinger Definition sound that forces the audience to notice the singificance of something onscreen. such as the ominous chord struck when the billans presnese is made known. Term parallelism Definition an instance in which the soundtrack reinforces the image, such as syncrohnized dialogue or sound effects or a voiceover that is consistant with what is being displayed onscreen. Term counterpoint Definition using sound to indicate a different meaning or association then the image. Term syncronous sound Definition sound that is recorded during a scene or that is synchronized with the filmed images; as used by scholare siegfried kracauer, a term that describes sound that has a visible onscreen source, such as moving lip; also frefered to onscreen sound,. a Term asynchronous sound Definition a term that describes sound that does not have a vsible onscreen source; also refered to as an offscreen sound. Term voice off vs voiceover Definition voice off- a voice that origionates form a speaker who can be inferred to be present in the scene but who is not visible in the scene. Voiceover- a voice whos source is neither visible in the frame nor implied to be offscreen, it tyically narrates the film's images such as in a flashback or commentay in a doccumentary film. Term functions of music in film Definition underscore dialougue, convey psychological states, music as dialougue, emphasize actions, establish genere, setting and period, mood,ethnicity, pacing, information. Term sound effects Definition emphasizes shit like traffic noises, makes a louder gun, a thunder clap, softer traffic if two fall in love. Term Plot Definition The narrative ordering of events of the sotry as they appear in the actual work, selected and arranged accordingto paticular temporal, spatial a, generic causal or other patterns. Term story Definition the subject matter or raw material of a narrative or our reconstruction of the events of a narrative based on what is explicitly shown and ordered in the plot. Term archetype Definition an original model or type such as satan as an archetype of evil Term retrospective plot Definition flashback Term direct cinema Definition a documentary style originating in the united states in the 1960s that aims to observe the unfolding situation as unobtrusively as possible. Term stages of film scrpting Definition 1) trTreatment, tells the story as a plot, revisions of screenplay, includes dialougue chronolically ordered scene in the plot shooting script- final version of screen playwith camera positions. Term Three models of character coherence Definition 1) cohers to one or more abstract values such as determination or treachery 2) logical relations between his or her inner or outerm ental life, and visible actions as when a sensitive character suddenly acts in a remarkably generous way. 3) charaver teflects socal and historical assumptions about normal or abnormal behavior, as when a fiftyeenth century chinese peasent women acts submissively before ment with power.  Term nichols modes of documentary Definition poetic mode build on certian associations expositionary- voice over commentary that tells viewrs how to respond observational - observes events Participartory- film maker acknoleges their rol in the events they film Reflexive- film maker becomes the subject or commentator on subject. Performanative- process of tdetermining truth, film becomes its own process of construction.  Term schopophelia Definition dirrive pleasure by looking at things. Term Spectatorship Definition theories of film that deal with the position of viewer. Term matteur-en-scene Definition derived from the french term for director.  In auteur theory this refers to a director who conveys technical competiance without possing a strong streak of individual vision, in contract to auteur. Term Definition