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BC/ENG 290 Professor Ness
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
11/16/2007

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leit motif
Definition
reoccuring musical passage associated with person object or place
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diegetic music
Definition
music for which there is a visible source on screen, (music box, woman singing)
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walla
Definition
crowd noise
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ADR
Definition
Automated dialogue replacement, actors what the film footage and re-record their lines to be dubbed inot the sound track.
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room tone
Definition
the aural properties of a location when nothing is happening
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direct sound
Definition
sound recorded directly from the source
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reflected sound
Definition
captured as sounds bounce from the walls and sets, to give a sense of space.
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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.
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spotting
Definition
Determing the spot to place music or effects on a film.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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counterpoint
Definition
using sound to indicate a different meaning or association then the image.
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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
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asynchronous sound
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a term that describes sound that does not have a vsible onscreen source; also refered to as an offscreen sound.
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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.

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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.
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sound effects
Definition
emphasizes shit like traffic noises, makes a louder gun, a thunder clap, softer traffic if two fall in love.
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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.
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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.
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archetype
Definition
an original model or type such as satan as an archetype of evil
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retrospective plot
Definition
flashback
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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.
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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.
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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. 

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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. 

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schopophelia
Definition
dirrive pleasure by looking at things.
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Spectatorship
Definition
theories of film that deal with the position of viewer.
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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.
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