Speech having the purpose to inform spectators and affect other characters on dramatic and psychological levels.
Characteristics:
- Reveals context, as well as spatiality considering the recording method
- Does not necessarily reveal any spatial cues but is usually affected by spatial signature
- Main point of information on voccocentrist film, becomes the main point of focus
- Magnetisation can back up the lack of spatial information to orientate the viewer in the diegesis
Related induced effect: Clear density; Sound balance
(Chion, 1999)