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Notes:
Very quickly--Robert Bresson is considered a seminal French movie director; he made Joan of Arc, Diary of A Country Priest, a Gentle Woman....and he is/was considered to be a master of using sound to manipulate the viewer's emotion's in his films.
So...with the idea that the web can learn something from its older brother.....Robert Bresson’s notes on sound
What is for the eye must not duplicate what is for the ear.
If the eye is entirely won, give nothing or almost nothing to the ear. One cannot be at the same time all eye and all ear.
When a sound can replace an mage, cut the image or neutralize. The ear goes more toward the within, the eye toward the outer.
A sound must never come to the help of an image, nor an image to the help of a sound. Image and sound must not support each other but most work each in turn through a sort of relay.
The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences.
