COMM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: A Man Escaped, Michel Chion, Francis Ford Coppola
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Week 9 &10: october 16-18 & 23-25: sound. Reading: film art, 263-302 & chion, "the accousmetre", & gorbman, "classical hollywood. Screenings: the conversation (francis coppola, us, 1974) & a man escaped (robert. Sound is perhaps the most taken-for-granted element of filmmaking, the one we think of as the least mediated by filmmakers" interventions. The conversation is about sound- and about how we take sound for granted as being unmediated. The conversation deals with the idea of surveillance, and the uses of surveillance in creating an interpretation of an event subtly but profoundly different from our initial understanding of it. By the time the film is finished, we"re no longer certain of the realism of sound. The conversation uses an art film style of narration, in which cause-and-effect relations are strained, an often discontinuous style of editing is used, and character motivations are ambiguous.
