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The Music Executive has a professional interest in the style or genre of music used in the film
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In charge of negotiating with record labels for the music that will be used in the film, in charge of selecting tracks for retail soundtrack, works for production company
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What is the music supervisor responsible for?
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| Who acts as the liaison for the music department? |
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| Who makes post recording fixes and changes to the score? |
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| I ensure that all parts are playable and in the proper instrumentation |
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| I make sure that the page turns are properly thought out |
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| I select songs for the soundtrack release for the film |
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| The music editor will edit together music from libraries and other sources to use as an example of what the music soundtrack should sound like, they would be creating a ______ |
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| The Temp Score plus the temp effects and production will be mixed to create what? |
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| The process of conforming the score is also called ______ |
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| This is the process of creating notes for when and what type of music will be used in the film |
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| Last Frame of Action, indicates the end of a reel, important having music cross boundary between reels could cause gaps or skips, so you need to know when the reel ends |
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| What is the LFOA and why is it important? |
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| If I used a Kenny Logins song (from one of his top selling albums) to come from a car radio what type of music would that be? |
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| Where is the score recorded? |
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| What is used by the music executive like an invoice for the "music" People? |
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| What do we call a melodic phrase or passage that accompanies a re-occuring theme or character |
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| Who is the head of the mixing stage? |
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| Where would I find analog audio on a digital stage? |
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| How far from the screen is the console on a mixing stage? |
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| Where is the processing and MTRs stored on the mixing stage? |
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| What are the front speakers called on a mixing stage for film? |
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| L, C, R behind the screen, Ls, Rs along the side and back walls |
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| DTS is routed to what specific channels |
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| Added left inner and right inner. Surround arrays are the same as DTS |
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| SDDS is routed to how many channels |
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| If we blend material from editorial to smaller sub mixes we are creating what? |
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Cedar Box DNS-1000: most popular, single ended noise reduction
Cedar Box DNS-2000: Pro Tools HD
Behringer DeNoiser: removes electrical noise
X-Hum from Waves: alternative to DeNoiser
Massenburg EQ: notches out specific sounds in the same frequency range as the dialogue (adds life)
Urei 565 Dip Filter: used as high or low cut filter
Focusrite 6 Band EQ: alternative to Urei
Brooke and Waves De-Esser
Aphex Expressor: keeps level under control and allows the use of a bit of compression
Renaissance Vox: alternative to Aphex Expressor |
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| Name the hardware parts of the chain and what they do |
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| Used to fix troublesome dialogue |
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| What do we use the chain for? |
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| What do we call the processing of ADR to make it fit the production audio? |
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| Panned dialogue in a Dolby Digital format would be routed to how many channels |
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| Principle steps would be routed to what specific channels |
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| 4 + 1 Channel BGs, L, R, Ls, Rs + 1 mono fill track |
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| What background predub gives us more flexibility in routing and mixing? |
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| Interaural Time Difference (ITD), Azimuth |
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| What static cue works best between 270 and 500 Hz? |
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| Pinna (e) response, Azmuth and Zenith |
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| What static cue gives the listener a front to back perception? |
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| Head Movement, Vision, Early Echo, Reverberation |
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| What are the Dynamic Cues? |
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| Fletcher Munson Equal Loudness |
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| What rule frequency to loudness ratio tells us that we need to EQ to maximize sound and get the most from our headroom? |
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| Octaves 3-4, gives fullness or bottom (80 Hz - 160 Hz) |
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| What octave range is said to be the foundation? |
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| Octaves 5-7, most of the frequencies of the human voice |
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| What octave range is said to give sounds intensity? |
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| Octave 6 (640 Hz - 1280 Hz) |
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| Which octave is hornlike? |
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| Lower part of 8th Octave (2200 Hz - 3500 Hz) |
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| Which octave is going to improve speech intelligibility? |
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| Octaves 9-10 (5120 Hz - 20 kHz) |
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| What are the octaves in the treble frequencies? |
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| Who chooses the mic for an ADR session? |
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| Who chooses the mic for a Foley session? |
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| All Caps, Scene Headers, Words that give indication to the mood |
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| What are 3 cues we can read within the script for sound cues? |
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| Male: 80 Hz-240 Hz, Female: 140 Hz-500 Hz |
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| What is the fundamental frequencies of the human voice? |
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| Types of cloth worn, footwear worn, surfaces needed, props |
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| What are some notes we could write for spotting Foley? |
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| WHat mic setup is not the best choice for busy or loud locations? |
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| Who is responsible for levels to tape in an ADR or Foley session? |
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| 10 frames, putting buy takes for animation back to DAT in script order |
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| How much space is left in a layback? What is a layback? |
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| Mechanicals, Engines, Maneuvers, BYs |
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| WHat are the four categories of vehicle recordings? |
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| Cloth/Movements, Footsteps, Incidentals, Custom FX |
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| WHat is the Foley order of operations? |
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| Who selects the mic for an ADR session? |
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| Name a well known walla group |
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Topic-Roll-Cue: Analog
Linear Number System: Digital |
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| What are the 2 archival methods for field recording and what medium are they used for? |
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| How should I know that the scripwriter wants me to focus on a certain sound? |
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| What allows a listener to tune in to one voice amongst many voices? |
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| What explains why we hear a sound as coming from the direction in which it first reaches us? |
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| The reason the sound of a passing vehicle seems to change in pitch is ______ |
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| Intensity of the source, Ratio of Direct to Reverberant sound, High Frequency Content |
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| What are the 3 aspects for simulating distance? |
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| Control overall level of a group |
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| Define what a VCA fader does in Pro Tools |
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| Dialogue, Sound Effects, Music |
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| If I am doing a controlled transfer of the 3 stems I am creating a ______ |
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| What are the 3 digital surround formats? |
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| What is the headroom of the digital formats? |
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| What surround format utilizes 8 channels? |
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| What surround fromat uses AC-3 compression? |
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| Audio is played back from CD-ROM which is following the printed track on film |
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| Where is the audio found for DTS on a film release? |
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| Printed between the sprocket holes on the left side of the film |
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| Where is SR-D found on the film release? |
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| Optical Print Master (Analogue Release) |
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| Which film release format has 9 dB of headroom? |
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| What is the above answer used for? |
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| What surround format uses ATRAC compreesion? |
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| Temporary/Placeholder Sounds, Mockups that will be improved later |
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| What is a prototype sound |
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| Recording Foley, Sound Design |
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| What are some ways to gather custom assetes for game sound? |
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| 50 % Design, 50% Implementation |
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| How much time is budgeted for design vs. implementation? |
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| Sound Miner, BaseHead, Excel |
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| What are some of the programs we use to organize sounds for games? |
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| Non-Interactive portions of the video game |
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| How do we handle the sound for Full Motion Video? |
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Alpha: beginning of the game process, the game is playable with temporary graphics, exhibits story flow, buggy, providing prototype sounds and gathering assets
Beta: most busy, the game is fully playable, filled with sounds, still buggy. Field recording is done, still designing, setting levels. Mixing sound elements delivering sound updates, checking and fixing bugs
Q&A: quality assurance, busiest for designers and programmers, game is fulls playable with all aspects and elements in place. Attending meetings, playing game, responding to bugs/fixing bugs, making fine adjustments
Gold: double checking/final approval, game is finished, going through final checks, passed around to all departments (release candidates) |
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| List the sound terms basic responsibilities during the following phases |
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| Guaranteed units sold and captive audience |
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| Why do labels want their music in games? |
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| Sound Processing Unit, dedicated processor for sound, handles sound so CPU doesn't have to |
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| Contain sounds that will be used unilaterally across all levels in the game |
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| RAM, Bandwidth, Storage Space |
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| What are the consoles limitations? |
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Triggered Sound: something happens in the game and sound plays as a result
Triggered Stream: something happens in a level and sound or music changes as a result |
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| What is the difference between a triggered sound and a triggered stream? |
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| Sounds are mapped to a 3-D model |
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| WHat do we use to wire sounds into games? |
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| What are the 2 free downloadables APIs? |
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| House Sync/Blackburst/Video Reference |
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| What uses a video signal to sync multiple pieces of gear? |
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| Original sound source, analogous visualization, sounds without visual congruence |
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| What are the 3 sound design conceptualization techniques? |
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| Designed Effects Editor, Hard Effects Editor (cuts on screen conscious sounds), Backgrounds Editor |
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| What is the sound editing hierarchy? |
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| Subtle Continuous Loops and Random Accents |
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| What are the 2 sound types used in ambience editing? |
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Try a different sound (best) or take a segment of the loop causing problems and make a copy then place that copy on a separate track offset from the original and crossfade
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What are the two ways to fix a washing machine effect, and which is the best way?
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| Name for console channels, number, organized by sound effect then output |
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| What does the track name tell us in a pro sound design session? |
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| Same location different perspective, 1 frame overlap |
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| What is the definition of a perspective change? |
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| If I want to discretely send signal to my left rear surround on a track routed to a quad output, I would set my diverence to _____ |
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| Creating a phantom center on a small fx track for dialog to fit in I would set the center percentage to _____ |
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Stereo Recording for Groups
Individual Animals in Mono |
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| How would I Mic multiple animals when field recording? |
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| What was the first film with sync'ed sound? |
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