Question 2.

Select from one of the readings, up to but not including Week 5, and briefly describe two points that you have taken from it. Points that excite you, something that was completely new to you. 

Bresson, R. Notes on the cinematographer, (p. 50-52). London: Quartet, 1986.

Sight and Hearing:

I like the idea of “if an eye is entirely won, give nothing or almost nothing to the ear. One cannot be at the same time all eye and all ear”. Films include audio and visual parts, where they should cooperate really well. Sounds couldn’t be too distracting when with strong images. Either the sounds or visual elements should provoke audiences’ emotion by their own. Since if the sound and image are powerful at the same time, it may become hard to focus on the film and their own attribute to the scenes may be neutralised. I reckon what we hear with ears should have added on to what we can’t see in the film. Therefore audio and visual elements should appear to represent different things. Another idea I find interesting in the reading is “images and sound must not support each other, but must work each in turn through a sort of relay”. I used to think that sound sometimes appeared to compensate the insufficient images. It is fascinating to know that sounds are as powerful as images that can in fact tell the story not only to contribute extra for the visual elements.