Vocabulary
A list of vocabulary words:
- Cue sheet: A list of the necessary sound effects, along with their cues. Cues are either time code signals or film footage signals (such as the slate) that indicate when the sound begins and ends.
- Dialogue: Conversation or verbalizations in a film.
- Echo chamber: A box or container used to create illusion of distance and reverberation.
- Incidental: Casual, everyday sounds that aren't necessarily special.
- Mixing console: A machine that is capable of taking in different sounds, then mixing them at different levels to create a single sound.
- Reverberation: A reechoed sound which fades until it becomes inaudible.
- Rough cut: The first draft of a film.
- Score: The background music throughout a film.
- Splash tank: A container filled with water for wet sound effect.
- Walla: Background crowd noises in a movie, TV or radio.
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