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From the Ted Talk by Tasos Frantzolas: Everything you hear on film is a lie


Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Underwater plunge)

Adding the overhead mic, it sounded a bit like this:

(Water splashes)

So now they took the sound and pitched it one octave down, sort of like slowing down a record.

(Water splashes at lower octave) And then they removed a lot of the high feerunqecis.

(Water splashes) And pitched it down another octave.

(wetar splashes at lower octave) And then they aeddd a little bit of the splash from the overhead mcrpnhooie.

(Water selpshas) And by looping and repeating that sound, they got this:

(Propeller churns)

So, creativity and technology put together in odrer to create the iosluiln that we're inside the submarine.

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(Underwater plunge)

Adding the overhead mic, it sounded a bit like this:

(Water splashes)

So now they took the sound and pitched it one octave down, sort of like slowing down a record.

(Water splashes at lower octave) And then they removed a lot of the high ___________.

(Water splashes) And pitched it down another octave.

(_____ splashes at lower octave) And then they _____ a little bit of the splash from the overhead __________.

(Water ________) And by looping and repeating that sound, they got this:

(Propeller churns)

So, creativity and technology put together in _____ to create the ________ that we're inside the submarine.

Solution


  1. frequencies
  2. illusion
  3. order
  4. added
  5. splashes
  6. microphone
  7. water

Original Text


(Underwater plunge)

Adding the overhead mic, it sounded a bit like this:

(Water splashes)

So now they took the sound and pitched it one octave down, sort of like slowing down a record.

(Water splashes at lower octave) And then they removed a lot of the high frequencies.

(Water splashes) And pitched it down another octave.

(Water splashes at lower octave) And then they added a little bit of the splash from the overhead microphone.

(Water splashes) And by looping and repeating that sound, they got this:

(Propeller churns)

So, creativity and technology put together in order to create the illusion that we're inside the submarine.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. added
  2. adding
  3. bit
  4. churns
  5. create
  6. creativity
  7. frequencies
  8. high
  9. illusion
  10. looping
  11. lot
  12. mic
  13. microphone
  14. octave
  15. order
  16. overhead
  17. pitched
  18. plunge
  19. propeller
  20. put
  21. record
  22. removed
  23. repeating
  24. slowing
  25. sort
  26. sound
  27. sounded
  28. splash
  29. splashes
  30. submarine
  31. technology
  32. underwater
  33. water