Terms
Places and Spaces
Films
Eras
Tech and Terms
100

The film-making phase where looping takes place.

What is a post-production?

100

Storefront theaters that appeared around 1905.

What is a Nickelodeon?

100

This 2000s film was an example of using anachronistic popular music.

What is "Marie Antoinette"?

100

1895 - 1929

What is Early film sound and music.

100

Sound effects created  apart from filming a scene and added to the sound track.

What is Foley?

200

General increase in the volume of sound

What is crescendo?

200

The term used by film music scholars for the music not belonging to the physical world shown in the film.

What is a non-diegetic music?

200

An early (first?) musical with a jarring opening sequence due to overly "realistic" sound and no background but silence between shots.

What is The Broadway Melody?

200

1926 - 1932

What is The shift to Sound Film?

200

A musical theme created for a film and repeated to produce independent meanings or associations when it is used.

What is a Leitmotif?

300

The higher or lower registers of the voice.

What is tessitura?

300

Sound from a character or source that could be shown but is not (e.g. the birds in Atonement).

What is a off-screen sound?

300

This 1999 sci-fi action film used a gestural (non-thematic) soundtrack and blurred the lines between music and sound effects.

What is "The Matrix"?

300

1932 - 1950

What is the Classical Studio Era?

300

Looping, dubbing, and rerecording dialogue are all known by this acronym.

What is ADR (automated dialogue replacement)?

400

A soundtrack album was a type of _______ income.

What is ancillary income?

400

Middle-class theater of the late 19th and early 20th century with mixed program of film, music, and other acts.

What is Vaudeville?

400

A 1960s film with an extended 10 minute establishing sequence.

What is "The Sound of Music"?

400

1950 - 1975

What is the Post-Classical Era?

400

Term for when music closely mimics screen action and blurs the line between music and sound effects.

What is mickey mousing?

500

Editing film with digital tools and immediate access to any point in a film.

What is non-linear editing?

500

Where all the decisions are made for placing music in a film.

What is a spotting session?

500

This film features a famous "dining room" montage.

What is "Citizen Kane"?

500

1975-2000.

What is The New Hollywood?

500

The technologies that revolutionized the sound track in the 1950s were stereo sound and _______.

What is magnetic tape?