The Jazz Singer Research Paper

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In the history of cinema, the arrival of sound really appeared in the film The Jazz Singer (1927). After that, film became an art about both visual and audial information. With the development of film production technologies, the function of sound designing becomes more significant in every film studio. The producers began to construct sound track separately from image in order to make sound as flexible and wide-ranging as other film techniques (Chion, 1994). In the various of sound designing techniques, the concept of “point of audition”, which was explained by deduced from the “point of view” by Michel Chion, was applied in film productions. This notion can be a spatial sense from a point in the space or a subjective sense relies on a specific character’s situation. Many audiences think that the sound is to serve and explain images cameras recorded. However, the point-of-audition sound is the key element of narrative but not an assistant of image. In other words, the point of audition …show more content…
Emotional engagement, which means that the audiences feel like the characters in the film stories, is a major application of the notion “point of audition”. Nowadays, the point of audition is always applied with using multichannel sound tracking techniques to improve audiences’ immersion of film stories. The engagement will be greater when the sound designer decides to transfer the point of audition from the spatial sense to the subjective sense (Coyle, 2010). In the film the legend of 1900 (1998), the talented pianist named 1900 has an incredible jazz battle with a black jazz player. The result is that 1900 win the battle with finishing ‘flight of the bumble bee’ in a jazz style