The screenplay, which is the film’s procedural planning document and blueprint outlining what will be seen and what will be heard, is also a poetic literary text informing the dialogue between itself and the film’s creators by broadcasting mood, sensation, and feeling, emerging as literary representations of what Michel Chion calls, the film’s “audiovisual phrasing”: the placement of primary audiovisual synch points crucial for meaning and dynamics.
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Let’s just, for a minute, assume that comics have audio. Of course, they don’t. We can’t hear the comic. But the use of onomatopoeia, and other expressive graphical representations of sound, allows us to read what we should be hearing. So, let’s assume we can hear the comic, that the comic medium has audio-visuality.
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