Booming
Sound Design
Terms
Sound Mixer
Hodge-Podge
100
This type of microphone gets its name from the pickup pattern similar to a long barrel. Allowing the microphone to cut out all external sounds
Shotgun
100
____________ is the overall process of recording, acquiring, manipulating, or generating audio elements in post-production to help create the audio of a film.
Sound Design
100
A produced echo effect in recorded audio
Reverb
100
This ghostly power source requires a certain number of volts to power a microphone
48 Volts
100
This 2021 film by Edson Oda made Marcus cry in the parking lot of the megaplex. It was that moment he knew it was his favorite movie
NO LOOKING AT MY LETTERBOXD
Nine Days
200
Boom mics are typically plugged straight into the mixer using this type of audio cable
XLR
200
These three elements make up the pillars of sound design
Music, Dialogue, Sound Effects
200
The 'sound of a room' without any movement or dialogue. Usually used behind dialogue, ADR, to make the scene appear seamless
Room Tone
200
The second step you should take when you are not getting a signal from your microphone
Make sure your cables are plugged in
200
Farfalle or bowtie pasta is marcus's least favorite pasta shape, but it is an objective fact that this shape is the actual worst one that everyone can agree on
Wheel
300
This type of microphone is best used for indoors, and it's pickup pattern has a heart of its own
Cardiod Mic
300
When audio is captured at a point past the capability of recording, it becomes overexposed or also known as this, which is often used for memes nowadays
Clipping
300
Give me two examples of Diegetic Sound.
Dialog within a scene, sound effects that exist in a scene, Music from a radio or band, etc.
300
Levels of audio while mixing sound for this scene should be in the yellow area whenever the actor is talking. It's measured in decibels at this range
-20 to -12
300
Marcus asks a question of the day everyday. This was the second.
Favorite TV show
400
The act of moving the boom by only a twist of the wrist. This is used to switch to actors quickly and quietly during intense dialogue scenes
Cueing
400
Noise floor is traditionally defined as this
In signal theory, the noise floor is the measure of the signal created from the sum of all the noise sources and unwanted signals within a measurement system, where noise is defined as any signal other than the one being monitored.
400
Dialogue that cannot be salvaged from production tracks must be re-recorded in a post-process called this
ADR or Automated Dialog Replacement
400
These are the three different ways to sync audio to video
Timecode, Slate, Scratch Audio
400
3x+7=2x+15
X=8
500
Ken Nightingall was the famous boom operator who also went by this name, who wore this outfit on the set of Star Wars
Pink Shorts Guy
500
You can become an artist by breaking celery to replicate a bone break with this type of sound design
Foley
500
This fuzzy wrap is not what it is called for that would be horrifying. It's actually used to help block wind from hitting the microphone
Dead Cat
500
The bit depth is the dynamic range of recording for a sound mixer. Audio for film should always be recorded at this bit depth
32 bit float
500
Daily Double-
Make your wager.
The first film Marcus showed as his example of a good sound was Babylon. Directed by this director