Ch.9 Sound

1)Foley sounds are not recorded “wild.” They are created and recorded in synch with the picture.

2) Four basic perceptual characteristics of sound

-pitch

-loudness

-quality

-fidelity

3)External sound comes from a source within the world of the story and can be heard by the characters in that world.

4)Sound mixer is responsible for recording and supervising sound on the set of a film.

5)The difference between diegetic sound and nondiegetic sound:

-Diegetic sound originates from a source within the world of the film

-While nondiegetic sound comes from a source outside that world.

6)The degree of motion of the air within a sound wave that determines a sound’s loudness is called amplitude.

7)Sound should be integral to all phases of production .

8)Ambient sound is sounds that emanate from the setting or environment being filmed.

9)Looping is the rerecording of sound first recorded on set.

10)Four phases of sound production:

-design

-recording

-editing

-mixing

Ch.10 Film History

1)Which film director working in the silent period is often credited with creating classical Hollywood film style?

-D. W. Griffith.

2)What political leader nationalized the Soviet film industry and established schools that trained filmmakers to make propaganda films?

-Lenin.

3)German expressionist films are characterized by exaggerated settings,oblique camera angles, and themes such as alienation.

4)Which Soviet filmmaker considered film editing to be a creative process that functioned according to the dialectics of Karl Marx?

-Eisenstein.

5)Besides being one of the first Westerns, what is significant about Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 film The Great Train Robbery?

-It was one of the first films that pioneered the idea of continuity editing.

6)Films of the Italian neorealist movement are characterized by real locations,nonprofessional actors and a documentary visual style.

7)How would you characterize the Hollywood studio system during the classical period?

-A top-down organization in which management controlled everything.

8)Three devices of series photography:

-revolver phatographique

-magic lantern

-fusil photographique

9)A box or room where light enters on one side and projects an image from the outside onto the opposite side or wall is called a camera obscura.

10)Which approach to film history would address the formation of the studio system, the distribution and exhibition of movies, and the rise of an independent system of film production?

-Economic approach