Sound Design (prepas) - QCM1 - ENGLISH VERSION

History of sound, types of sounds, behaviors and functions in Cinema and video-games

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Question 1

Tell me your name.

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Question 2

What types of sounds can be produced in games in the 70's ?

Synthetic sounds

Recorded sounds like instruments and orchestra

White Noise to produce percussive sounds

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Question 3

In Banjo-Kazooie, what's peculiar with the music behavior? Especially for 1998.

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Question 4

There was no sound at all when watching a movie before the outburst of Talkies (talking cinema) in 1926/1927. Explain your answer with details.

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Question 5

In "Space Invaders" (1978), the music is faster and faster as enemies are killed. Do you remember how it was implemented by the developers? Is there even a way that they could do it back in these days? Explain how it was done, if you caught that.

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Question 6

Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) in 1983, who was composing the music for the games?

Programmers

Musicians

John Cena

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Question 7

In moves, when we could only record and use one sound source to describe everything and take every role at once, what was the sound source we most often chose?

Music

Dialogues

Foley (sound effects done via recording sound performers)

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Question 8

The only thing composing a footstep sound is the impact of the shoe with the floor.
Explain your answer with as much details as you can.

Yes

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Commentaires

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Question 9

In a game with fighting scenes, impact sound effects must be hard, powerful and loud.

Yes, players need to have clear feedbacks

No, we must hear music and dialogues mostly, so the volume of sfx must be kept at a minimum

It depends, because this is an esthetic/creative choice.

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Question 10

What elements must be present in an ambience for a game? Be precise and give details.

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Question 11

It's mandatory to have comedians to record if we're to have dialogues in our game, there's no other way to have dialogues. Give precisions

Agree

Disagree

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Question 12

What element must we have in mind when designing/writing NPC dialogues for a game? (the NPC dialogues called "wallas", the ones that go on even without the interaction of the player)

We shouldn't use high profile dialogues like screams, unusual words, jokes, etc.

We shouldn't use low profile dialogues that go unnoticed

We should have several pronunciations/actings available for the same voice line.

We shouldn't do long dialogues

We can give info about nearby quests

We can setup the context via dialogues

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Question 13

Hi traveler! How was your trip? Which elements are essentials when conceiving/writing dialogues?

Good AI

Nice graphics

A reflexion on immersion

Hi traveler! How was your trip? Which elements are essentials when conceiving/writing dialogues?

Variables to keep track of what the players have already heard, which character they have encountered, what is the current weather, etc.

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Question 14

UI Sounds can be mistaken for music/have musical features to them.

Agree

Disagree

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Question 15

In which case(s) linear music (that can't vary depending on player interactions, that are written in a certain way and won't change whatever actions the player does) can be even better than interactive music?

In cinematics

In a fighting game

In a chase/action sequence

In a level with a fixed timing/duration

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Question 16

Foreshadowing with music means...

Describing a character and his/her temper with music

Announce something to come by planting clues before it happens

React to the emotions of the characters

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Question 17

What structure must a movie's music have?

Whatever we want that's good for the movie.

A structure that's very similar to that of the images : Action sequence = Action music, etc.

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Question 18

Silence can be pertinent and useful in a scene. Explain why.

Agree

Disagree

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Question 19

Sound can add something (infos, emotions, etc.) that aren't present in the images. Explain why.

Yes

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Question 20

Music can give reward in a game

Yes

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Sound Design (prepas) - QCM1 - ENGLISH VERSION

Tell me your name.

What types of sounds can be produced in games in the 70's ?

In Banjo-Kazooie, what's peculiar with the music behavior? Especially for 1998.

There was no sound at all when watching a movie before the outburst of Talkies (talking cinema) in 1926/1927. Explain your answer with details.

In "Space Invaders" (1978), the music is faster and faster as enemies are killed. Do you remember how it was implemented by the developers? Is there even a way that they could do it back in these days? Explain how it was done, if you caught that.

Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) in 1983, who was composing the music for the games?

In moves, when we could only record and use one sound source to describe everything and take every role at once, what was the sound source we most often chose?

The only thing composing a footstep sound is the impact of the shoe with the floor.Explain your answer with as much details as you can.

In a game with fighting scenes, impact sound effects must be hard, powerful and loud.

What elements must be present in an ambience for a game? Be precise and give details.

It's mandatory to have comedians to record if we're to have dialogues in our game, there's no other way to have dialogues. Give precisions

What element must we have in mind when designing/writing NPC dialogues for a game? (the NPC dialogues called "wallas", the ones that go on even without the interaction of the player)

Hi traveler! How was your trip? Which elements are essentials when conceiving/writing dialogues?

UI Sounds can be mistaken for music/have musical features to them.

In which case(s) linear music (that can't vary depending on player interactions, that are written in a certain way and won't change whatever actions the player does) can be even better than interactive music?

Foreshadowing with music means...

What structure must a movie's music have?

Silence can be pertinent and useful in a scene. Explain why.

Sound can add something (infos, emotions, etc.) that aren't present in the images. Explain why.

Music can give reward in a game

The only thing composing a footstep sound is the impact of the shoe with the floor.
Explain your answer with as much details as you can.