SOUND IN TV AND FILM

WHAT IS SOUND • Volume

• Tone

• Vibration

• Resonate

• Timber

• Pitch

• Non-dieqetic

• Soundnauk

• Additional sfx

Sound is a type of energy made by vibrations. When any object vibrates, it causes movement in the air particles. These particles bump into the particles close to them, which makes them vibrate too causing them to bump into more air particles. This movement, called sound waves, keeps going until they run out of energy. If your ear is within range of the vibrations, you hear the sound.

When the vibrations are fast, you hear a high note. When the vibrations are slow, it creates a low note. The sound waves in the diagram show the different frequencies for high and low notes.

DIEGETIC NON-DIEGETICSound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film:

voices of characters

sounds made by objects in the story

music represented as coming from instruments in the story space ( source music)

Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world

Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action:

narrator's commentarysound effects which is added for the dramatic effectmood musicNon-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source outside story space.