To keep things brief, I would like my project to be audiovisual. I'm aware that my ideas might change and I might want to do something else depending on how the research goes, but for now, I think this is a decent place to start.
To begin, here is the Wiki definition, so we get that out of the way:
"Audiovisual (AV) means possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, church services and live theater productions."
As it's fairly easy to grasp what audiovisual is, basically everything, I decided to have a look at some books and found just what I needed:
Cinema and the audiovisual imagination - Robert Robetrson - 2015
What struck me most was a chapter in which Roberts brings up two occasions in 20th century cinema where the audio complimenetd and contrasted the visual to make the overall atmosphere of the scene in question more emotion; in both cases, stress and unease.
The first occurs in the 1944 film "This happy breed", in a scene where the music, which is playing from a radio, starckly contrasts the mood of the situation. So we have a couple whom have just found out their son has died in a car crash, and bright, cheerful music playing from the old radio. The contrast between audio and image, instead of being out of place, work incredibly well in amplifying the tragedy.
The second is in Hitchcock iconic 1963 film "The Birds".
The scene takes place just outside a schoolhouse, where childern are singing a long, repetitive in the class room, which can be heard by the woman sat outside, a friend of the teacher.
She sits infront o f a playground, which with each new verse of the childish tune, is occupied by crows. The song is the only audio that cen be heard, appart from the filck of the lady's lighter. As the song continues, more and more birds fly to the playground and by the end, there is a mass of dark crows perched on every surface.
The song sung by the children, and the progressive build up of birds is supposed to bring the audience a sense of growing unease, and it its achieved similarly to the previous occurance, with sharp contrast between cheerful song and dark imagery.
If we look a little closer to home, sharks are scary not because they actually are, but they are always recorded and shown with ominous music.
To begin, here is the Wiki definition, so we get that out of the way:
"Audiovisual (AV) means possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, church services and live theater productions."
As it's fairly easy to grasp what audiovisual is, basically everything, I decided to have a look at some books and found just what I needed:
Cinema and the audiovisual imagination - Robert Robetrson - 2015
What struck me most was a chapter in which Roberts brings up two occasions in 20th century cinema where the audio complimenetd and contrasted the visual to make the overall atmosphere of the scene in question more emotion; in both cases, stress and unease.
The first occurs in the 1944 film "This happy breed", in a scene where the music, which is playing from a radio, starckly contrasts the mood of the situation. So we have a couple whom have just found out their son has died in a car crash, and bright, cheerful music playing from the old radio. The contrast between audio and image, instead of being out of place, work incredibly well in amplifying the tragedy.
The second is in Hitchcock iconic 1963 film "The Birds".
The scene takes place just outside a schoolhouse, where childern are singing a long, repetitive in the class room, which can be heard by the woman sat outside, a friend of the teacher.
She sits infront o f a playground, which with each new verse of the childish tune, is occupied by crows. The song is the only audio that cen be heard, appart from the filck of the lady's lighter. As the song continues, more and more birds fly to the playground and by the end, there is a mass of dark crows perched on every surface.
The song sung by the children, and the progressive build up of birds is supposed to bring the audience a sense of growing unease, and it its achieved similarly to the previous occurance, with sharp contrast between cheerful song and dark imagery.
If we look a little closer to home, sharks are scary not because they actually are, but they are always recorded and shown with ominous music.
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