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actuality

German translation: O-Ton

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English term or phrase:actuality
German translation:O-Ton
Entered by: Veronika Neuhold

15:43 May 19, 2007
English to German translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / Filmerschließung / Notations for a film script
English term or phrase: actuality
What does "Actuality" mean in a film script? (How) is it translated into German?
Veronika Neuhold
Austria
Local time: 10:41
O-Ton
Explanation:
or Originalton.
Selected response from:

Gert Sass (M.A.)
Germany
Local time: 10:41
Grading comment
Danke!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3O-Ton
Gert Sass (M.A.)
3 -1Gegebenheit
swisstell
2Definitions - not for points
Kim Metzger


Discussion entries: 3





  

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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Gegebenheit


Explanation:
würde ich meinen

swisstell
Italy
Local time: 10:41
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 17
Notes to answerer
Asker: Hi Bernhard, it's a documentary film about a Volvo Ocean Race, including lots of onboard action.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Kim Metzger: The word actuality is often taken to mean recorded material that isn't speech.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
Definitions - not for points


Explanation:
Actuality (often shortened to ack.) Comments of a news source on audiotape in a radio news story. General term sound bite is used in radio and TV, but actuality is a radio term.

http://ehub.journalism.ku.edu/input/glossary/

Actuality, shorted to Act
Radio
Audio material recorded on location. In news programmes it is usually someone speaking and lasts for 10 to 20 seconds. People outside radio often call it a sound bite. In features and magazine programmes however, the word actuality is often taken to mean recorded material that isn't speech. In TV it is called sync.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/4791411.stm


Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 02:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
O-Ton


Explanation:
or Originalton.

Gert Sass (M.A.)
Germany
Local time: 10:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Danke!
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