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Writing Cinema: Audiovisual phrasing and screenwriting practice
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The Möose: writing audio to be heard

February 5, 2019

“Only the river repeats itself, and repeats itself, without ever repeating itself”

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Forms of Sound: the different types of audio

November 22, 2018

Research Note on the lack of complexity in the delineation of sound elements in films, adding levels of complexity and specificity/detail to provide a list of sound forms.

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"The Kingdom of Ants" Reading Questionnaire
August 5, 2022
"The Kingdom of Ants" Reading Questionnaire
August 5, 2022

The Kingdom of Ants - CinefestOZ 2022 Questionnaire

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August 5, 2022
The Kingdom of Ants - Full Screenplay
February 11, 2022
The Kingdom of Ants - Full Screenplay
February 11, 2022

The Kingdom of Ants is the practice driven creative component of my PhD exegesis. Its purpose is to explore and exercise literary writing as a way of putting audio into words in a feature length screenplay. I have always been fascinated by the aesthetic and synaestheic linkages (or cinestethics as Vivian Sobchack calls this relationship) between audio and the moving image in cinema and, specifically, in music videos. But in my PhD I look at how the written form of the cinematic screenplay can be utilised to represent the soundscape through the literary form.

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February 11, 2022
The Kingdom of Ants - Script Outline
August 19, 2021
The Kingdom of Ants - Script Outline
August 19, 2021

The Kingdom of Ants is the practice driven creative component of my PhD exegesis. Its purpose is to explore and exercise literary writing as a way of putting audio into words in a feature length screenplay. I have always been fascinated by the aesthetic and synaestheic linkages (or cinestethics as Vivian Sobchack calls this relationship) between audio and the moving image in cinema and, specifically, in music videos. But in my PhD I look at how the written form of the cinematic screenplay can be utilised to represent the soundscape through the literary form.

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August 19, 2021
/B/ump or /Th/ump: What is the sound of an apple falling?
February 26, 2019
/B/ump or /Th/ump: What is the sound of an apple falling?
February 26, 2019

Onomatopoeia is a literary effect in which a sound is written like it sounds. But does an apple falling on a roof go /th/ump or /b/ump?

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February 26, 2019
An Intricate Weave: Sound and music in The Man Who Would Be King [1975] (Dir. John Huston)
February 25, 2019
An Intricate Weave: Sound and music in The Man Who Would Be King [1975] (Dir. John Huston)
February 25, 2019

A look at the three levels of Maurice Jarre’s score music, and it’s uses, in John Huston’s epic 1975 adventure film The Man Who Would Be King

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February 25, 2019
A Tale of Ten Titles: The iterative cyclic process of candidacy titling
February 6, 2019
A Tale of Ten Titles: The iterative cyclic process of candidacy titling
February 6, 2019

A journey through the ten titles featured in the twelve drafts of my application for PhD candidacy, which provides a compelling and engaging procedural exemplary of my methodological approach.

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February 6, 2019
The Möose: writing audio to be heard
February 5, 2019
The Möose: writing audio to be heard
February 5, 2019

“Only the river repeats itself, and repeats itself, without ever repeating itself”

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February 5, 2019
Forms of Sound: the different types of audio
November 22, 2018
Forms of Sound: the different types of audio
November 22, 2018

Research Note on the lack of complexity in the delineation of sound elements in films, adding levels of complexity and specificity/detail to provide a list of sound forms.

Read more →
November 22, 2018
Screen-To-Script: Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson (2009)
November 15, 2018
Screen-To-Script: Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson (2009)
November 15, 2018

The screenplay, which is the film’s procedural planning document and blueprint outlining what will be seen and what will be heard, is also a poetic literary text informing the dialogue between itself and the film’s creators by broadcasting mood, sensation, and feeling, emerging as literary representations of what Michel Chion calls, the film’s “audiovisual phrasing”: the placement of primary audiovisual synch points crucial for meaning and dynamics.

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November 15, 2018
The Screenplay as Haiku: Haibun poetics in Giler and Hill's "Alien"
November 4, 2018
The Screenplay as Haiku: Haibun poetics in Giler and Hill's "Alien"
November 4, 2018

Walter Hill and David Giler’s Alien script flows like a punchy haiku poem or, maybe more accurately, takes on many of the characteristics of the prosimetrum compositional qualities of Matsuo Basho’s haibun poetry.

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November 4, 2018

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