CIN380H1 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Western Electric, Rca, Soundscape
12 Oct 2018
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CIN380H1
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018
CIN380 LECTURE 1
INTRO
Reading Responses
• What is the thesis of this article
• Summarize the article
• Critique the article
- What critical assumptions is the author making
- What was their critical POV? (look at it objectively)
- What is the author’s point? What are their goals?
• Is the article successful or not? *get to the point of what the article is about, not summary
(just summarize main issue)
Group Presentations
• Summary of the film
• How sound works artistically and technically in that film
• Connect the film to the reading from that week
• Use audio-visual aids
• Show clips of the film
READING → Allison Whitney
• She makes the assumption that we don’t spend enough time talking about sound and
music in film
• You can’t pause a film and literally point out the sound
Ex. Depp Focus visual vs. Deep Focus sound
• Sound is theoretical and harder to pinpoint
• You can’t put sound far away from the screen – it pulls the viewer out of the experience –
sound must function in an actual space
CLIP → Drive
• Pay attention to the layers of sound (radio broadcast)
• Sound design contributes to the expression, when the actor (Gosling) exhibits none –
KULESHOV EFFECT
• POINT OF AUDITION → POV shot for a soundscape
• Film is using the opening sequence as a training mechanism, to let the audience know ow
everything is going to work
• Sound designers say you can’t have everything on at once, or it becomes noise – they
need to initiate choices about what the audience hears
• The Laker game broadcast goes in and out, and we don’t even realize it but we respond to
it
• Sound design is a newer concept – sound manipulation was very basic in Classical
Hollywood
FILM → Berberian Sound Studio
• Fluctuation between non-diegetic and diegetic sound
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Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018
• They are filming making sounds, but would have had to record those sounds previously
to make the movie
• Sometimes the characters move off screen so the sound becomes really important
• Sound evokes emotional connection even from the people producing it
• All Italian films sync dialogue and do not record sound with the visual
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Document Summary
Reading responses: what is the thesis of this article, summarize the article, critique the article. What critical assumptions is the author making. What was their critical pov? (look at it objectively) *get to the point of what the article is about, not summary (just summarize main issue) Group presentations: summary of the film, how sound works artistically and technically in that film, connect the film to the reading from that week, use audio-visual aids, show clips of the film. Reading allison whitney: she makes the assumption that we don"t spend enough time talking about sound and music in film, you can"t pause a film and literally point out the sound. Deep focus sound: sound is theoretical and harder to pinpoint, you can"t put sound far away from the screen it pulls the viewer out of the experience sound must function in an actual space.
