sounds in film

Parallel editing

Two or more lines of action that occur simultaneously at different locations (also called crosscutting) designed to create the illusion of simultaneity

Discontinuity editing

Seeking to achieve transitions between shots that are not smooth, continuous or coherent. It calls attention to itself as an element of cinematic form.

Main two obstacles of sound in film

Synchronization and Amplification

The benshi

Japanese film performers who provided live narration and sound for silent films

Vertical Integration

When a company controls multiple stages of the production and distribution process of a film. Production, Distribution and Exhibition

The big 5 agreement

A 1927 agreement between MGM, Paramount pictures, Warner Bros, 20th century fox, and RKO to work together on the transition to sound films and adopt the same sound system

The Vitaphone system

Premiered with the film Don Juan in 1926 with warner bros, it was a slund-on-disc technology that scyinchronized pictures with sound on a separate disc.