Who am I? Go with the (work)flow. We've got you surrounded. FX! Watch your phraseology!
100
Who is Jack Foley?
He invented the technique of performing sound effect along with picture.
100
What are premixes?
Not the final mix, but before it.
100
What is L.F.E. (Low Frequency Effects)?
Give a little, get a little - this track has limited bandwidth, but extra headroom.
100
What is Walla?
"It's getting crowded in here", said by a group of people.
100
What is a wild take?
You might capture a line of dialog without rolling cameras, but it is certainly not tame.
200
Who is John Williams?
A prolific film score composer, or a classical guitarist.
200
What are stems?
The final audio output from the mix stage.
200
What is a Hamasaki Square?
A surround sound ambient array composed of four bi-directional mics.
200
What are foley, ambience, and cut effects?
The three categories of sound effects.
200
What is diegetic sound?
Anything sound that comes from within the story space and can be heard by the characters.
300
Who is Christian Doppler?
As he approaches, he sounds a little sharp.
300
What is Automated Dialog Replacement?
You might think so INITIALLY, but it is not Australian Design Rules or Alternative Dispute Resolution.
300
What is Optimized Cardioid Triangle?
Mike A. Ray's initials are actually O.C.T.
300
What is a sampler?
A selection of chocolates from Whitman, or a musical instrument that plays back recordings.
300
What is an auditory object?
A sound that can be distinguished from other sounds.
400
Who is Tomlinson Holman?
He puts the T.H. in THX.
400
What is Dialog, Music, and Effects (D, M & E)?
A trio of stems - sans flowers.
400
What is divergence?
Not quite a 2014 movie starring Shailene Woodley, this is a term for sound spilling into other channels in a multi-channel panner.
400
What is ambience?
A heteronym for mood lighting and music...
or environmental sounds.
400
What is 'boom'?
Slang term for the L.F.E. track, or a mic at the end of a pole.
500
Who is Alan Dower Blumlein?
Prolific inventor of stereo sound, stereo phonographs, and coincident stereo mic techniques. He was killed in a plane crash in WW2 while testing a prototype airborne radar.
500
What is a plant mic?
Not literally a fern, but it could be placed in one.
500
What is ambisonics?
A system of capturing the magnitude of three dimensional vectors of sound at one point in space.
500
What is continuity?
Sound can help to smooth over picture cuts and provide this.
500
What is a pull-down?
"I'm running slow, but only a tenth of a percent."






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