Chion

saw Bergman's name....already hooked. this concept of audiovisual illusion is pretty interesting. i guess ive known what it was i just didnt know it had a proper name. the relationship between sound and image are what make the art of a film and this illusion that forms is between the most important aspects of the images and sound. ok wow i dotn know if what i just wrote makes any sense but i get it...its stressign the importance of sound on an image. it creates a new illusion....its like in a horror film, how important sound is to get viewers scared for whats to come in the next shot. the added value aspect is the stress on the sound to the image. a simple image of a gun is not as effective as an image of a gun with a loud gun shot being played over the image to empahsize the gun itself, or as the reading says, enriches the image.
as important as sound is, voices are more heard. i think its because as viewers, we are used to hearing other anyway, so when its in a film our natural instinct is to be drawn to words rather than noises. words are just as or even more effective as a sound library since its what viewers tend to pay attention to more which is why dialogue is often highlighted over natural sound.
music is one of my favorite parts of a film. some recent fims have ahd amazing soundtracks like Whip It, Zombieland and Adventureland....after realizing what amazing music these films had, i looked up some interviews with the filmmakers and it turns out each one of them had a huge play in the music choices in their films. they wanted each song to further the story rather than just serve as a scene transition. while watching the images in films, sometimes the lyrics of the music lend a hand at the emotion in the scene...the whole empathetic music concept. the anempathetic music i used to think was just used during scene transistions but after reading the article, its actually used to intensify emotion in some cases
most of this article reminds me of how sound, music and words effect horror films....probably because its valentines day and ive been watching horror films all day....but it really made me realize how much sound in general effects images.