Emotion resonance and divergence: a semiotic analysis of music and sound in 'The Lost Thing', an animated short film and 'Elizabeth' a film trailer
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Article Title | Emotion resonance and divergence: a semiotic analysis of music and sound in 'The Lost Thing', an animated short film and 'Elizabeth' a film trailer |
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ERA Journal ID | 35332 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Noad, Betty (Author) and Barton, Georgina (Author) |
Journal Title | Social Semiotics |
Journal Citation | 30 (2), pp. 206-224 |
Number of Pages | 19 |
Year | 2020 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1035-0330 |
1470-1219 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2018.1543115 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330.2018.1543115 |
Abstract | Music and sound contributions of interpersonal meaning to film narratives may be different from or similar to meanings made by language and image, and dynamic interactions between several modalities may generate new story messages. Such interpretive potentials of music and voice sound in motion pictures are rarely considered in social semiotic investigations of intermodality. This paper therefore shares two semiotic studies of distinct and combined music, English speech and image systems in an animated short film and a promotional filmtrailer. The paper considers the impact of music and voice sound on interpretations of film narrative meanings. A music system relevant to the analysis of filmic emotion is proposed. Examples show how music and intonation contribute meaning to lexical, visual and gestural elements of the cinematic spaces. Also described are relations of divergence and resonance between emotion types in various couplings of music, intonation, words and images across story phases. The research is relevant to educational knowledge about sound, and semiotic studies of multimodality. |
Keywords | music, sound, semiotics, meaning, multimodality, emotion, filmtrailer, animated movie |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390104. English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | University of New England |
School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4y7z/emotion-resonance-and-divergence-a-semiotic-analysis-of-music-and-sound-in-the-lost-thing-an-animated-short-film-and-elizabeth-a-film-trailer
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