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2012 | 3 | 1 | 30-47

Article title

Fenomenologia zvuku a hudby v horore

Title variants

EN
PHENOMENOLOGY OF SOUND AND MUSIC IN HORROR MOVIES

Languages of publication

SK

Abstracts

EN
The paper deals with the problem of effective and aesthetic exploitation of sounds, jangle, music and silence in making an atmosphere of stress and fear in horror movies. The authors analyze the frequency spectrum of sounds and complexity of musical motif in selected samples from two movies, which represent the minimalist and maximalist approach in answering the research problem. Beside of that, the authors deal with relationship of audio and visual aspects of the movies explored. First part of the research is inspired by hypothesis of psychoacoustics dealing with physical characteristics of an unpleasant sound that causes intensive physiological reaction of a human organism. The authors assume that sound with these characteristics could be one of the reasons of an emotional reaction a viewer experiences when watching a horror movie. Next area on which this research is focused is the use of noises. According to psychoacoustics, noise affects the perception of other sounds, thus it is able to aid building of an atmosphere and tension in the movie. In the third part, the authors compare the complexity and variations of musical motifs of both of the movies. Motifs with lack of a structure and rigid repetitiveness can be boring for a viewer, which may be very counterproductive in terms of examined film genre. In the final part of this research, the authors deal with the relationship of audio and visual aspects of movies explored.

Year

Volume

3

Issue

1

Pages

30-47

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Contributors

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  • Fakulta masmedialnej komunikacie, Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Namestie Jozefa Herdu 2, 917 01 Trnava, SLOVENSKA REPUBLIKA

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