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Abstract
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Introduction
The Personal Background for This Study
The Structure of This Study
Introduction to Practical Work
Dreamlake Case Study
Conclusion
Future Work
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Audio Arts and Acoustics

An Abstract Narrative Form of Film

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Abstract

Films can be related to discrete or multiple positions along a continuum from clarity to obscurity, from the recognizable, pictorial and concrete, to the undefined, ambiguous, symbolic and abstract. This thesis discusses examples of films that in their rendition of light, color, moving image, sound and story successfully combine both abstract and concrete forms and treatments. These films work within an intersection between clarity and obscurity, in so doing they productively engage with the tension between audience and authorial produced content. These works span high and low art in early to present day cinematic forms. Visual Music is one contemporary film form that could give equal prominence to abstract and concrete forms. The current and future development of film in live performance contexts suggest the most fertile ground for further developing a form of film that productively engages concrete and abstract forms.

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In fact this continuum might be best represented as a loop; for instance, the most entirely abstract film, such as Richters’ Rhythmus21, can be seen as being abstract for its lack of mimetic representation yet seen as concrete in being constructed entirely of rectangles and black and white tones.
In fact this continuum might be best represented as a loop; for instance, the most entirely abstract film, such as Richters’ Rhythmus21, can be seen as being abstract for its lack of mimetic representation yet seen as concrete in being constructed entirely of rectangles and black and white tones.

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