Sound

• Digetic Dialogue

  Voices of characters talking
• Digetic sound effects

  Made by the environment or objects
• Digetic music

  Represented as coming from the story space
• Digetic sound

  Sound where source is visable
• Non-digetic

  Sound to add meaning for spectator
• Non-digetic voice over

  Commentary by someone not in scene
• Non-Digetic sound effects

  Rare type if sound
• Non-Digetic music

  Music score or soundtrack of songs
• Internal digetic sound

  Subjective and has its origin inside a person's mind
• ID dialogue

  Voices inside characters head
• ID effects

  Subjective feelings
• ID music

  Music imagined,remembered or created in the head of a character
• Sound bridge 


  Across a transition
• Fade in/Fade out

  Helps the audio flow more smoothly
• Ambient sound

  Comes from environment
• Synchronous sound

  Matches visuals (e.g. lip sync)
• Contraplintal sound

  Works alongside visual meanings