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WEEK 4

Two systems of thought – 

System 1:

emotion, feeling, intuitive, fast, automatic, subconscious

System 2:

reason, logic

Under circumstances where there may be confusion, imperfect knowledge or multiple conflicting goals, emotions traditionally replace reason to guide immediate responses and action – filmmakers use this to manipulate their audiences.

 

• Umwelt – an organism’s subjective experience of its environment

• Perceptual apparatus doesn’t make a distinction between what’s real, or not real; in real world this is fight or flight, in fiction, this is suspension of belief.

• An objective reality is problematic if you’re thinking umwelt.

• The experience of sound and vision is different, as is mode of processing – we consciously process about 1% of the information our sensory inputs feed the brain – so our subconscious is working to process the rest.

• Misattribution – soundtrack generate emotion but you believe it’s immanent ti the screen; multimodality of cinema.

 

Frisson – overwhelming emotional response combined with goosebumps; surprise

Synchresis – the spontaneous and irresistible weld produced between a particular auditory phenomenon and visual phenomenon when they occur at the same time. (Chion, Audio-Vision, p.63)

 

Thinking beyond the dichotomy of sound and vision –

TEXTURE

Texture IN film – the presentation of soft fabric, of slime, of different textures within the film world

Texture OF film – the digital image, the film reel

Texture FROM film

 

For a film to be immersive:

• suspension of belief
• suspend interaction with the real world, and focus instead on a single image – the film on screen
• follow the narrative or surface layer presented to us
• there is something that happens when all elements of a film come together to create ‘perceptual synchresis’ = immersion – the film mediates the new on screen world for us, as we plug into the film world presented to us

 

Texture In Film 

It’s about representation and mediation, however these are different. When you represent something, you try to present its likeness; mediation goes beyond that as it imbues the likeness with the inherent qualities of the medium used to present the thing – the affordances of the recording medium effect the presentation of the thing in the film – mediation fills the perceptual gap – it allows it to be believable and guides your perception of what is being presented on screen.

These sensations, the feeling of light, weight, texture – thats created through mediation.

Texture Of Film

Dirt, scratches etc of film vs the crisp, manipulated image of the digital – does film texture effect immersion?

We can become immersed so well in the digital image as it doesn’t separate us from the screen

 

texture IN film + texture OF film = textured filmic experience = immersion

music concrete 

 

Music has a particular perspective – it may not necessarily let you know what this perspective is until later – it simply hints at its perspective – used a lot in horror

 

For music to be effective, it must fall away and meld together with the vision so that neither one appears incongruent to the other, you fail to actively notice either, but rather become absorbed in the world they present.