Analysis from musical and audiovisual perspective

Assessment : Deadline June 22th

Write a short paper (1000 - 2000 words)

Choose a scene (of around 4 - 15 minutes) from a film and discuss the soundtrack, specifically paying attention to the 6 functions (time, space, character, audience, story, syntax)

■ Give short synopsis of the film and where the fragment is situated in the story

■ Make a breakdown of the audiovisual elements (in a table or any preferred structure)

■ Give equal attention to both sound and music

Session #6 : The open mode

April 8th, 2020

Watch or read the transcript of John Cleese's 1991 lecture (30 min.) on creativity.

Recap of the things we've seen so far, some discussion about the creator's perspective, analysis of short scene from Monos (2019) and a better definition of the assessment for this course that's due June 22th.

Analysis #6 slides

Monos ex1 breakdown

Examples session #6

Session #5 : Narrativity

March 27th, 2020

Continuing with Decision Pending. And some thought from Vincent Meelberg about narrativity in (atonal) music and Jonathan Kramer about temporalities in contemporary music.

Examples session #5

Analysis #5 slides

Session #4 : Conveying experiences in film

March 24th, 2020

Analyzing a scene from Apocalypse Now (Coppola) and A Man Escaped (Bresson). Taking a look at the creation process of my film Strangers and Decision Pending.

Please read Walter Murch's "Dense Clarity - Clear Density"

Examples session #4

Analysis #4 slides