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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"film sound"”.
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The Digital Turn in Indian Film Sound: Ontologies and Aesthetics
My project maps film sound practices in India against the backdrop of the digital turn. It is a critical-historical account of the transitional era, roughly from 1998 to 2018, and examines practices and decisions taken ‘on the ground’ by film sound recordists, editors, designers and mixers. My work …
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The Integrated Soundtrack in Practice: an Electroacoustic Sensibility to Composition in Film Sound Design
… research investigates integrated approaches to filmmaking through the lens of sound design and electroacoustic composition, advancing a relational understanding of film practice in which creative processes emerge through dynamic interrelations between filmmakers, materials, tools, and narrative …
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Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers' Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production. Volume 1.
For the majority of cinema history, the film industry has treated sound as a less integral ingredient in the filmmaking process. This has translated into working practices that have marginalised sound's contribution and have divided personnel. Joel and Ethan Coen's mode of production stands in …
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Collaboration and Integration: A Method of Advancing Film Sound Based on The Coen Brothers’ Use of Sound and Their Mode of Production. Volume 2.
For the majority of cinema history, the film industry has treated sound as a less Integral ingredient In the filmmaking process. This has translated into working practices that have marginalised sound's contribution and have divided personnel. Joel and Ethan Coen's mode of production stands in …
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Ingmar Bergman and Jacques Tati: Pushing the boundaries between sound and silence
… competition with music halls, mime, and theatre, film as a medium still managed to become the most prevalent form of mass entertainment. This could be due to the combination of many art forms, from visual, storytelling, or musical ones, as film somehow possesses hypnotizing dreamlike qualities. A …
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What Isn't There: Imaging Palestine
… a twenty-year period including: photography, film, sound and installation. At the heart of this project is a set of interwoven questions: Is an image of Palestine possible and what would constitute such an image? How do we consider the image if, as I argue, the realms of politics and art are …
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The influence of music on the emotional interpretation of visual contexts
… scenarios.</p> <p>Background is provided from film-sound theory, studies of the expressive capabilities of sound in film, theories of connotation related to musical tonality, music cognition and implications of neuroscientific research on human emotion. Two studies follow, one empirical and the …
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Aural image and the language of electroacoustic music
… to composition and shows how it is based on filmic models for the treatment of sound and aural image. Chapter One explains the author's concept of 'aural cinema' and defines briefly some analytical terms of reference needed for subsequent chapters. Chapter Two describes a general-purpose …
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Exploration of sound-based music composition tools and techniques for Hollywood-style science fiction films
… in the context of entertainment science fiction film. After an initial exploration of existing theories in the fields of electroacoustic music and film sound, a practical theory to evaluate and classify suitable sound sources is proposed to enable to composer to derive an amalgamation of the …
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A Sonic Arts Approach to Sound Design Practice
… the development of a sonic arts approach to film sound design. An interdisciplinary conceptual framework that combines selected theories of electroacoustic music and apposite perspectives from film soundtrack studies informs the approach. Over the course of the research, a broadening …
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Five ‘Exits’ from Brecht: Towards New Brechtian Subjectivities in Film. How can Brechtian v-effekts be developed or adapted in the light of contemporary understandings of subjectivity?
I am an artist-filmmaker working in, and against, the Brechtian tradition. My practice experiments with ways to repurpose the alienation technique, the Verfremdungseffeckt (v-effekt), challenging the limitations of the continued use of formal critical methods in the Brechtian tradition. For this …
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Creating a sound world for Dracula (Brorwning, 1931).
Creating a Sound World for Dracula (Browning, 1931) The first use of recorded sound in a feature film was in Don Juan (Crosland 1926). From 1933 onwards, rich film scoring and Foley effects were common in many films. In this context, Dracula (Browning 1931)1 belongs to the transitional period …
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Select Reject Reconfigure: Editing Speech in Artists’ Direct Address to Camera
… the speech has been recorded. While ‘artists’ film and video is a distinct form of cultural practice with its own autonomy’ in relation to mainstream film (Rees, 1999, p. vii), editing practices within the field of artists’ direct address to camera show no such independence and widely adopt …
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The address of spirituality in contemporary art
The thesis explores the use of religious themes and the notion of self-design in contemporary art practice. It argues that art today that addresses religion does so primarily for its rhetorical function: for a recognizable pattern of persuasiveness, which is ultimately defined by its established …
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The sound of the hidden curriculum: music and sound design in baby-boomer era social guidance films in the United States
… in World Wars I and II, 16mm instructional films became widely used as classroom teaching tools in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to traditional subjects like science and geography, instructional film production companies such as Centron, Coronet, and Encyclopaedia …
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Collecting Rooms: Objects, Identities and Domestic Spaces
… the combined use of still photography, video and sound. Constructed from a symbiotic relationship between theory and practice, the research uses a methodology that combines Sensory Ethnography with Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. This methodology explores the idiosyncrasies of each …
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Art as a Source of Learning for Sustainable Development: Making meaning, multiple knowledges and navigating open-endedness
This research is a practice-based inquiry into the contribution of art to processes in which communities explore, design and proceed on sustainable ways forward. In rejecting an overly technocratic approach, this thesis follows a learning-based conception of sustainable development. Rather than …
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An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing
The intention of most film editing is to create the impression of continuous action (“continuity”) by presenting discontinuous visual information. The techniques used to achieve this, the continuity editing rules, are well established yet there exists no understanding of their cognitive …
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Realist Collage: Non-fiction Film Practice Addressing the History and Identity of 'Welsh Wales' through Critical Realism, Found Footage and Animation
… 20th century, the techniques of collage and film montage were linked with the cultural production of political radicalism. The assemblage of new wholes from existing parts established a critical method for negotiating the social world. Driven by technological and cultural developments, the …
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A new narrative frame: sound design and conceptual storytelling in German film 1930-1933.
… as well as global political and economic forces, sound film became rapidly established as an innovative element in German cinema. With the arrival of technology enabling the production of synchronous sound for cinema film, the era of live sound accompaniment in cinemas drew to a close. This thesis …
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