Audio Vision

Audio-vision

Main characteristics
• The text (movie or audiovisual material) structures our vision.
And not the other way around.
• Moving Images tend to be vococentric or verbocentric.
• Intensity of sounds (measured in db.) and different terms or planes (sound levels).
• Synchronization points: when a visual occurrence coincides with an auditive occurrence. 1) A “hit” as a synchronization point; 2) An avoided synchronization point; 3) An elasticized synchronization point.
• Implied synchronization points.

Main characteristics
• Diegetic: sounds or music which come from within the physicality of the scene.
• Non-diegetic or incidental: sounds or music which are clearly external to the nature of the scene and added in post-production.
• Empathic effect: sounds or music which evidently compliments and heightens the emotions and nature of the scene (dialogues, actions, etc.), AND which are clearly synchronized with what happens within the scene and its editing.
• Anempathic effect: sounds or music which evidently goes its own way in regards to the nature of what the images show. There’s no dynamic coordination.

Functions of music in moving images
• Expressive: it can evoke emotions related to what is portrayed in the images and dialogues and/or generate empathy or antipathy fro a character.
• Aesthetic: it can generate an atmosphere (for a particular scene or sequence or for the whole film) and/or determine a defined style. • Structural: it can contribute and modify rhythm (and therefore time) perception and it can contribute to the continuity and unity of scenes and sequences.
• Narrative: it can highlight key moments and add perspective and information to what’s happening.

Leitmotif (according to MerriamWebster’s dictionary)
• 1: an associated melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation especially in a
Wagnerian music drama.
• 2: a dominant recurring theme.