Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Source Music, Roaring Lion, Siegfried Kracauer

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Gregg Redner

Document Summary

1895 1927 silent era (film cross borders easily: live music. 1927-1930 > the beginnings of synchronized sounds: warner bros. - the vitaphone system (sound-on-disk, fox-movietone sound system (sound optically recorded on film), the jazz singer (1927) 1930-1941 innovations in cinema sound: eisenstein, pudovkin, and alexandrov, chaplin, a cumbersome reality, the coming of cultural specificity, multi-national versions. The elements of film sound: sound can interact with the image in a variety of ways: a) b) c) Footsteps in the hall: claudia gorbman & michel chion (sound masking) Sound does not have a visible source onscreen. The image and the soundtrack say the same thing: a phone is shown on screen and we hear the sound of a ringing phone is both parallel and synchronous, contrapuntal sound. Two different meanings are implied by the image and the sound: the sound of a roaring lion combined with the image of a purring kitten is both asynchronous and contrapuntal.