Sound

Study Guide

If you have carefully read this chapter, you should be able to discuss the following topics and recognize them as we watch films…

Historical background

· synchronous editing

· booms

· dubbing

· sound montage

Sound Effects and Music

· effect of musical score

§ purely descriptive music (mickeymousing)

§ music to denote emotions or shifts

§ other uses of music

· use of silence

· cinema verite

The Spoken Voice

· effect of inflection

· subtext

· simultaneous or juxtaposed sounds and images

· effect of voiceover

Questions to ask about sound

· see page 235