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