The Kingdom of Ants is the practice driven creative component of my PhD exegesis. Its purpose is to explore and exercise literary writing as a way of putting audio into words in a feature length screenplay. I have always been fascinated by the aesthetic and synaestheic linkages (or cinestethics as Vivian Sobchack calls this relationship) between audio and the moving image in cinema and, specifically, in music videos. But in my PhD I look at how the written form of the cinematic screenplay can be utilised to represent the soundscape through the literary form.
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The Kingdom of Ants is the practice driven creative component of my PhD exegesis. Its purpose is to explore and exercise literary writing as a way of putting audio into words in a feature length screenplay. I have always been fascinated by the aesthetic and synaestheic linkages (or cinestethics as Vivian Sobchack calls this relationship) between audio and the moving image in cinema and, specifically, in music videos. But in my PhD I look at how the written form of the cinematic screenplay can be utilised to represent the soundscape through the literary form.
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Read MoreThe Möose: writing audio to be heard
“Only the river repeats itself, and repeats itself, without ever repeating itself”
Read MoreScreen-To-Script: Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson (2009)
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.
Read MoreObserving, Locating, and Analysing Audio-Vision: Chion and Bordwell
Michel Chion’s notion of audiovisual phrasing and David Bordwell’s six-p methodology for uncovering the poetics of cinema, when joined, will provide a solid methodological approach for the location and critical analysis of cinematic audio-vision.
Read MoreComic-to-Script Analysis
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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