1. The term melodrama literally means ___________.
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2. The 1927 Warner Brothers film, The Jazz Singer, is historically significant because __________.
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3. The term __________ refers to when a sound carries over a visual transition in a film.
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4. An audience’s experience of a film during the silent era may have included which of the following?
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5. Hearing a voice that originates from a speaker who the audience can infer to be present in the scene even though he or she is not visible on screen is a technique called __________.
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6. Individuals who create sound effects by watching the film and simultaneously generating live sound effects to go along with the images are called __________.
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7. Which of the following statements about voiceover is correct?
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8. In 1926, Warner Bros introduced a sound-on-disk system called __________.
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9. Source music refers to _________.
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10. According to the textbook, what does Claudia Gorbman mean by the “principle of inaudibility?”
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11. Underscoring is also referred to as __________.
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12. The technique of exaggerating a physical action by imitating it with sound is called __________.
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13. The term nondiegetic sound refers to _________.
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14. Sound effects in a film __________.
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15. Automated dialogue replacement (ADR)—when the actors watch film footage and re-record their dialogue to be dubbed into the film—is also known as ___________.
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16. _________ refers to the apparent distance or direction of sound source.
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17. Music often assists in characterization because each main character has his or her own _______.
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18. Music in film can serve which of the following functions?
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19. Synchronization refers to ___________.
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20. Sound that can be heard by the characters in the movie is likely to be categorized as ___________.
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