Multiple Choice Questions

Question 5.1

1. The term melodrama literally means ___________.

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Question 5.2

2. The 1927 Warner Brothers film, The Jazz Singer, is historically significant because __________.

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Question 5.3

3. The term __________ refers to when a sound carries over a visual transition in a film.

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Question 5.4

4. An audience’s experience of a film during the silent era may have included which of the following?

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Question 5.5

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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Question 5.6

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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Question 5.7

7. Which of the following statements about voiceover is correct?

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Question 5.8

8. In 1926, Warner Bros introduced a sound-on-disk system called __________.

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Question 5.9

9. Source music refers to _________.

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Question 5.10

10. According to the textbook, what does Claudia Gorbman mean by the “principle of inaudibility?”

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Question 5.11

11. Underscoring is also referred to as __________.

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Question 5.12

12. The technique of exaggerating a physical action by imitating it with sound is called __________.

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Question 5.13

13. The term nondiegetic sound refers to _________.

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Question 5.14

14. Sound effects in a film __________.

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Question 5.15

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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Question 5.16

16. _________ refers to the apparent distance or direction of sound source.

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Question 5.17

17. Music often assists in characterization because each main character has his or her own _______.

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Question 5.18

18. Music in film can serve which of the following functions?

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Question 5.19

19. Synchronization refers to ___________.

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Question 5.20

20. Sound that can be heard by the characters in the movie is likely to be categorized as ___________.

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Incorrect. The answer can be found on page 195.