| SFS/Spotting – What is spotting? |
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| First step in the art of telling the story of a film through sound. |
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| SFS/Spotting – In your own words describe the technical aspect of spotting. |
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| SFS/Spotting – What is the first rule of sound for motion pictures? |
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| SFS/Spotting – In your own words describe what a subconscious sound is and give three examples of it. |
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| SFS/Spotting – What is the responsibility of music in a morion picture soundtrack? |
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| SFS/Spotting – Conscious sound. |
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| SFS/Spotting – What is considered to be the content and drives the story of the morion picture? |
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| SFS/Spotting – What is said to add the realism to a motion picture soundtrack? |
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| SFS/Spotting – How do you consolidate a region? |
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| SFS/Spotting – On the Pro Control, what allows you to navigate through the session? |
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| Zoom/ Navigate in master section |
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| SFS/Spotting – What are three things you can do in lab to ensure you do not lose audio files? |
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-Save
-Save in correct Folder
-Name Sounds Properly |
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| Foley – When lookin at a character on the screen, what part of the body should you watch when recording them? |
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| Foley – How do you set up a Cue mix on the D-Control |
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| Foley – How do you snap the end of a region to a selection point? |
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Mac- Control + Command + Click
PC- Control + Windows + Click |
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| Foley – What must you press to nudge audio back and forth in Pro Tools? |
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| Foley – What must you do to time stamp a region? |
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Highlight Region
Shift Command M |
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| Sound Design – What paths and subpaths would you need to comp your designed effect to a 5.1 track? |
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| Sounds Design – How do you repeat paste to fill selection to Pro Tools? |
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Make Copy
Selection
Option + Command + V
Alt |
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| Dialogue – At what level is dialogue most intelligible? |
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| Dialogue – What is important about the frequency range between 1kHz – 3.1kHz? |
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| Most prominent frequencies of the human voice |
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| What is the most prominent frequencies of the human voice? |
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| Dialogue – In the world of dialogue what is important about 600Hz? |
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Vowels- below 600Hz
Consonants- above 600Hz |
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| Dialogue – What are the fundamental frequencies of the human voice? |
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Males- 80Hz-240Hz
Females- 140Hz-500Hz |
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| Dialogue – How many times is each take of dialogue generally recorded in a VO session for animation? |
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| Dialogue – What is a “Buy” in an animation VO? |
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| The selected take to be used in the animation |
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| Dialogue – How much space is between each line of animation dialogue when they are laid back to DAT? |
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| Dialogue – Define “Mutable”. |
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| An element from the work track not used in final product. It is muted. Hince “mutable”…. |
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| Dialogue – What is “phasing” the audio? |
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| The process in which each piece of production audio recorded into the session is nudged very slightly in time against the guide track until a swirling effect can be heard in the background. To ensure the audio is perfectly in sync with the guide track and the video. |
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| Dialogue – What is the purpose of backfill? |
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| Balances ambiences from cut to cut |
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| Dialogue – What are the two mutable tracks? |
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| Dialogue – What is the purpose of the X Track? |
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| simply summed up as “Bad production dialogue” |
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| Dialogue – What type of track would I split the dialogue to if the characters were sharing the same space? |
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| Dialogue – What is the first choice of mic in the ADR session. |
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| Same mic used on production. |
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| Dialogue – What type of artifacts does the dialogue editor need to remove? |
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Lips smacks
Generator noise
Boom pole noise |
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| Dialogue – What are three types of EDL? |
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Sony….
Grass Valley….
CMX….
Pg. 159 |
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| Dialogue – What command focus key do you use to maintain time code position while moving a region? |
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Mac – Control key
PC – Windows key |
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| Dialogue – How do you turn on “time line insertion follows playback”? |
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| Dialogue – How do you access Pop Up takes? |
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Make sure in the editing tab of preferences “take region lengths that match” and “separate region operates on all related tracks” is checks.
Then Command Click |
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| Dialogue – Who has the challenge of mixing production audio against what is being recorded in order to make sure that the new material will work with the production material? |
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