Film Score: An original piece of music that’s written/tailored for a specific film. Film scores are composed to enhance a film’s story and emotion. Film score composers create the music for a film based on the direction given from the director.

Jukebox Score: When the majority of the songs are well-known popular music songs, rather than original music.

In the TV show ‘Wednesday’ voice-over narration is used to move the story along whilst also giving audience insight into Wednesdays thoughts as she goes into girl-detective mode (Wednesday narrates the voice-over).

Leitmotif: associated melodic phrase or music that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation.

Example- John Williams’ shark leitmotif in Jaws

Examples:

• Thin sticks and dowel rods produce excellent whooshing SFX
• Old chairs and stools are perfect for controlled creaking
• Heavy-duty stapleguns serve for excellent gun noises
• Roll up a large phonebook for realistic body punches
• Twist and snap sticks of celery for convincing bone breaks
• Corn starch inside a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunching
• Cut a coconut in half and line them with a soft material for a horse walking
• Ball up and walk over old audio tape for the sound of grass footsteps
• Locate an old car door to produce metal and car crash sounds
• Flap a pair of cleaning gloves for the sound of realistic bird wings

Diegetic: The news in the background (ambient sound), The smashing of objects (eg windows and records), Dialogue

Non-Diegetic: The music in the background of the fight scene

 A needle drop is when music that wasn’t recorded for a movie is added into a movie – when a pre-existing song plays in a movie or show, either as diegetic sound or non-diegetic sound.

Example: In American Psycho, Patrick Bateman plays ‘Hip to be square by Huey Lewis & The News’ as he is about to murder Paul Allen, the use of an upbeat song juxtaposes his murderous intentions/actions.

Sound Editor: Creating and recording sounds (pre-production).

Sound Mixer: Controls the volume and tone of sound picked up by microphones in order to obtain the desired effects for recording.

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Overall working on the technical aspects (filming and editing) was enjoyable and I reckon we worked well as a team. However, there was some continuity problems making it harder to seamlessly edit the shots together. In the future I think having a clear understanding of how to use Adobe Premier Pro would greatly benefit me as I ended up with problems at some stages of editing.

Match on action- Cutting/transitioning between two events that are similar in action or movement.

Graphic Match-  Links two different scenes together through the use of aesthetically similar elements like shapes, colours, patterns or overall movements.

Eyeline Match- When the point of view of one or more characters is cut and matched with what they are looking at.