Glossary

Incidental Music - 

is music in a play, television programme, radio programme, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical.

Jingle -

a short slogan, verse, or tune designed to be easily remembered, especially as used in advertising. 

Dialogue -

conversation between 2 or more people.

Narrator -

 a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events. 

Spot sound effect -

A sound effect representing a single discrete event, such as breaking glass, as opposed to ongoing background sounds. 

Background sound effects - 

Ambient sound broadly denotes the background sounds that are present in a location: wind, water, birds, room tone, office rumbles, traffic, forest murmurs, waves from seashore, neighbourhood mutters, and so on.