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I know Google is your friend.. but I'm low on time right now and i've found myself to be pretty curious on the following thing:

 

What's the technical "name" of a piece of SFX, sample, waveform piece or alike for that little repetitive brief chunk of sound you may hear in many movies as for example:

 

The Fifth Element(1997): When the movie plot is pointing to the main character: LeeLoo..

The "Alien battleship horn" wavesound played many times in the Battleship(2012) movie...

Those more than well known 5 notes played in Encounters in the Third Kind movie..

The Alien Tri-pod played so many times during the War of the Worlds movie..

 

and so forth.. these little sound waves must have a technical name.. what would be or is it, please?

 

Thanks in advance.

 


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A stock sound effect


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foley


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they call that a sting,  or an audio call-back, or que.  


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should have linked to the wilhelm scream


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I think you're looking for the term Leitmotif:

 

https://en.wikipedia...wiki/Film_score

https://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Leitmotif

 

Cheers!


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Huh? No. i try an answer but i am not even sure if i understand the question. i just have too much time right now.

 

Leitmotiv would be only fitting for that melody he mentioned in Close Encounters, because John Williams also uses it in the score and its heard thru the whole movie. Don´t know what my man Silencer means with that 5th element scene.

 

The rest is just sound effects, that happen to be part of the movie. The alien tri-pods in WotW do a "Möööööhhhp"-Horn Sound so they sound more alien and menacing. Spielberg could have chosen a "doobedabbyshingaling"-sound but that would be silly. Wouldn´t it? 

 

Why are you even differ those sound effects from any other in the movie? Because they are heard many times in that movie? Then any lasershot effect in Star Wars or the Millenium Falcons screaming engines would be canditates too?

 

If they have a name i´d call them "signature sound effects" but if i am all wrong because i don´t understand the question i´d go with (thc)phed´s answer:

 

 

Then again thats part of the score and no sound fx. confuzzled i am.


Edited by Aelita, 22 February 2016 - 10:41 PM.

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My dear Aelita,

do you watch The Big Bang Theory TV show? do you hear those edited weird laughs, that wave sound in the background played each time you´re supposed to be laughing? That must have a technical name as an item in the media sector. Hope I made my question more clear with this other example here. Thanks, mate ;)


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That would be called a laugh track...
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I'll call it -> SFX Leitmotiv

 

Thanks to all


Edited by The_Silencer, 24 February 2016 - 07:05 AM.

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phed is right, but thats nothing like you described, oh silencer. glad you are glad nevertheless.


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