When I watched Vivre Sa Vie, I didn’t notice anything remotely special about the sound of the film. It seemed mostly pretty natural, at times, even badly recorded. But upon researching the film, it would appear that Godard’s film was one of the first films ever to be shot outside a studio with unprocessed production audio. Even possibly, the first film to use production audio for dialogue when shooting on a location. All the environments in the film are natural environments and in some of these environments, it can become difficult to hear the sound over the background noise for instance the busy bars and cafes that the film is shot in. The music soundtrack of the film is also quite possibly one of the most interesting experiments, as the music was recorded live on location directly onto the single track that would be played back in theatres.

Film Art defines a connection between form and sound in the way that the way sound is constructed can become a pattern that is introduced and obeyed or disobeyed throughout the film. Form is the way a film is constructed from the building blocks of repetition and differences and sounds can be used in a similar way. Aside from the technical construction of the sound, the recording, the space and even certain effects can be repeated to immediately bring the audience into a specific emotion or understanding. One of the best examples of this is Star Wars, sound effects in that film are incredibly important and convey not only specifics of the story, but also character and emotion. No one can say that R2D2 or Chewbacca don’t express emotion and this is evidence of the power of sound in motion picture filmmaking.