ENGFLM 0530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cinematic Techniques, Recto And Verso, Verisimilitude

• School: Pitt
• Department: English Film Studies
• Course: ENGFLM 0530
• Professor: Patterson Alison

Document Summary

Sound was thought to be helpful for recording business experiments. 1908 films were beginning to be shown in houses: manufacturers trying to bring film and sound together. Sound directs our attention: sound cues for visual elements anticipates that element and relay our attention to it. Play the same note on a piano and guitar, different sound but same note and frequency and pitch: tonal polar, choosing, altering, and combining sounds, selection guides our attention, ex. Dimensions of film sound: rhythm, beat/pulse, tempo/pace, pattern of accents (stronger and weaker beats, fidelity, the extent to which the sound is faithful to the source as we conceive it, ex. Synchronous and parallel = tea kettle and its noise. Sound simultaneous in the story with the image: 1. Sound earlier in story than image: 3. An orchestra will go along with a play: sound parallel to invisible editing= unheard melodies. Does the sound help to maintain the integrity of the diegetic world? (auditory continuity)