2. • Diegetic sound - Sound whose voice is made visible on the screen or
whose source is implied to be present e.g. voices, sounds made by objects,
music coming from instruments visible on the screen.
• Non Diegetic Sound – sound whose voice is not made visible on the screen
and is not present in the action e.g. a narrator’s commentary, sound effects,
mood music.
• Synchronous – sound that appears to be matched in certain movements
occurring in the scene, for example when footsteps correspond to people
walking.
• Asynchronous – when sound is not matched with a visible source on the
screen. For example, the background sound of an ambulance’s siren while
the foreground sound and image show two people’s conversation,
3. • Sound effects – a sound other than speech or music made artificially for use in a play, movie or any other
broadcast production.
• Sound motif – a sound effect or combination of sound effects that are associated with a particular character,
setting, situation or idea through the film.
• Sound bridge – when the scene begins with the carry over sound from the previous scene before the new
sound begins.
• Dialogue – conversation between two or more people in a programme, film or book.
• Voice over – the voice of an unseen narrator, or of an onscreen character not seen speaking, in a movie or a
TV series
• Mode of address/direct address – how the text speaks to the audience and involves them. It also involves
how an audience respond to a text in a certain way.
• Sound perspective – a sound’s position in space as perceived by the viewer given by the volume, timbre and
pitch
• Score/incidental music – original music written specifically to accompany a film, often played in the
background
• Themes and stings – themes is a music that always accompanies the particular TV show or even a particular
character, and suits its mood or themes (James Bond)
- Stings are short bursts of music, originally used in TV and radio to bump together different sections and
chapters of a show.
