Sound

• It is part of the production process but mostly with the POST-PRODUCTION process.

Purpose in TV/Film:

1. Simulating reality
2. Creating illusion
3. Mood

Types of sounds:

• Diegetic

Sound 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 

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

• Non Diegetic

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

• Narrators commentary
• Sound effects added for the dramatic effect
• Mood Music

Non-diegetic sound is represented as coming from the a source outside story space

• Ambient sound                                  
  

          Background noise

• Sound mix                    
  

The way in which the different sounds 
in a scene are mixed together         

• Direct address        
  

When the actors speaks directly to the camera

• Voiceover
  

Dialogue spoken by an unseen character over related images

• Dialogue
  

Words spoken by actors 

• Sound bridge

Sound linking the end of one scene and the beginning to the next

• Sound motif

A sound of piece of music associated with a character,place or theme.