ABSTRACT
"Synchronized" identifies a particular relationship between the soundtrack and the imagetrack that is apparent to the audience as more than simply the coincidence of simultaneous presentation. Diegetic sound is a conclusion about the character of a soundtrack, its anticipated and expected organization, rather than the proximate or necessarily apparent connection of 'lip-sync', even though it behaves in the same way. The apparent directness of linkage that produces 'lip-sync' as a naturalistic phenomena where characters shown and voices heard correlate as "the speaker shown". In the voice-text-image unity presented by title sequences, they cease to be a coordinated series of separate phenomena when the audience recognizes their synchronization: sound is instead "grounded" by its linkage with an image. The naturalistic synchronization of sound and image is so common as to appear inevitable- a demonstration of how realism dominates synchronization. Naturalistic synchronization aids in the assertion of resemblance that Bazin finds as the demonstrative character of photographs.
