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WEEK 3

 

Immersion in fiction – the brain extracts useful information, allowing the viewer to play out different scenarios without diluting factual memory

When you’re immersed in a film you don’t question every factual element – we experience the action within the context of the work – suspension of disbelief.

Exploding Reality 

 

Conscious attention – very small amount of what is observed is consciously observed – the rest is taken in subconsciously by the brain

 

EXCERPTS FROM THE READING

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Repetition allows the brain to derive further meaning as it moves from paying attention to one aspect of something to another.

kurt vonnegut is a star

 

audio 

• sounds which it pays to ficus on

• sounds which can be left to a subconscious subroutine – zombie agent

• sounds which can be completely ignored

the metaphoric gap between the thing and its metaphoric shadow

 

SOUND – used to;

• clarify or express an idea (often used recurrently to impress a theme or characterisation)
• describe or generate emotion
• materialise/confer authenticity on an image (makes it feel real, gives it weight – e.g fight scenes, car crashes)
• provide additional layers of information (weight, size, texture, causal listening – tapping table, you learn what the table is made of, door slam, you learn how angry a person is based on how loudly it is slammed)
• articulate structure
• accelerate or decelerate pace
• delineate genre / project a tone / stimulate a required schema