Chion Readings

when sound is applied to image, fireworks occur! it truly is a special relationship that audio has to an image that it did not have before. some sort of added presence that evokes emotion. i know that when i see a film on TV but the volume is on mute i feel somewhat disconnected from the visual source; it does not have me truly consumed in its clutches. but when headphones or some sort of louder audio source is introduced, somehow the music makes the magic happen. i liked how in the reading he talks about sound being the first thing our brain processes, and that its not something we really actually recognize right away. it is a completely different medium, absorbed by a completely separate realm of sensory perception, and it seems the combination of these two by our brains creates something new, as different ingredients when cooked make a tasty recipe. this also kind of reminds me of that film we watched in class where the image going thru the projector was actually causing the optical soundtrack to provide "music" simply because of how the film was scratched in that area. In this case, the sound is a biproduct of the image, and yet it adds so much to the film. There is a rhythm of sound that matches the image, that being the first thing we register upon our first viewing. another connection i thought of was the rhythmic editing examples by the previous class. There were some with sound and some without, and the ones lacking felt longer and more arduous to watch then the others. It is almost like a catalyst that causes the chemical reaction of FILM to occur. It is truly fabulous and mysterious... o.0