1. Quiz – The Social Network  1) TSN is set primarily at which American college?  2) Prior to joining the Facebook, Sean Parker (J. Timberlake) founded this file-sharing internet company.  3) Facebook originally began as the prank website “Facemash.” Describe the principle function of this site (i.e., what made it popular?).  4) True/False: The Winklevoss Twins win their European crew race.  5) There is an un unusual line on Mark Zuckerberg’s business card. What is it?

2. SOUND FILM 1010 – Week 3.2

3. Biases  Motion PICTURES  Moving IMAGES  Movies  VIEWERS WATCH movies  SPECTators But sound exists in interaction with the images.

4. The Diegesis  Diegetic = the (fictional) world of the film  Character speech  Sound effects (car horns, footsteps)  Music (car radio, band in the background)  Non-digetic = outside the film world. Question: How can you tell? Answer: Can the characters hear it.

5. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)

6. The Soundtrack  Not this! 1. Voice 2. Music 3. Sound Effects

7. Voice  1. Dialogue  Prime driver of narrative action  Speaker generally gets the close-up  Often continues into reaction shot A film can do without most sound effects and music; It cannot do without voices.

8. Voice-off  Voice-off  When we hear a character speaking when s/he is not onscreen.  Voice-off aids our spatial grounding.  Key: It is diegetic (characters can hear it)  Example: Erin Brockovich; M: Erin Brockovich

9. Voice-over  Voice-over  Offscreen character narrates the film  Non-diegetic (characters do not here it) Documentary – “the voice of God” (ex: Century of the Self) Character commentary (ex: Bridget Jones’ Diary)

10. Music  Music is primarily non-diegetic  Thus, un-realistic (but we accept it)  Example: Blazing Saddles  Cues audiences to interpret/react in particular ways  Example: Mystery Film (?); Notting Hill  Music frequently shifts between diegetic and nondiegetic.  Shifts up and down depending upon dialogue

11. Music, cont’d  The Stinger – abrupt music that highlights a particular moment  Example: The Ring  Mickey-Mousing – music designed to mimic natural sounds  Example: Wipeout  Periodization – music from a particular time period informs audience of film’s historical era.  Example: American Grafitti

12. Sound Effects  Sound gives “depth” to the two-dimensional image.  Theaters allow for directional sound  Creates the feeling of real space  Sound gives us information (police sirens)  May sound realistic, but often recorded after shooting (“foley artists”)

13. Sound Bridge  Transition in which a sound from one scene carries over into the next scene.  Sound equivalent of the dissolve.  Example: Groundhog Day

14. Sound Disjunction  When sound and image do not “link up”  Disrupts illusion of a unified world  Examples: Paranoid Park; Natural Born Killers; Four Eyed Monsters; Kissing on the Mouth; All the Real Girls