Narrative Music, Visuals and Meaning in Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12700291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johnny Wingstedt (Royal College of Music, corresponding author), Sture Brändström (Luleå University of Technology, corresponding author), Jan Berg (0000-0002-2516-5843, Luleå University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-210 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-3572 • E-ISSN: 1741-3214 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470357210369886 |
| OpenAlex | W2063673876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
Narrative media music, music used for narrative purposes in multimedia such as film, television or computer games, is becoming one of the largest sources of musical experience in our daily lives. Though typically experienced on an unconscious and unreflected level, this kind of music actively contributes narrative meaning in multimodal interplay with image, speech and sound effects. Often, what we (think we) see is to a large degree determined by what we hear. Using Halliday’s (1978) metafunctions of communication as a starting point, two short film scenes (from Jaws and The Secret of My Success) are examined, with a focus on the intermodal relationships of music and image. The examples illustrate how musical and visual expressions combine to form multimodal statements where the whole is certainly different than the sum of the parts
Art · Focus (optics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Multimedia · Musical · Musical composition · Narrative · Point (geometry · Unconscious mind · Visual arts · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Media, Communication, and Education · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |