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This chapter focuses on the “M” of the model: the “means”—sound, image and language. “Sound” (Sect. 4.1) is addressed in relation to sound design (Sect. 4.1.1) and soundtrack (Sect. 4.1.2), with a case study on the movie Back to the Future (Sect. 4.1.3). “Image” (Sect. 4.2) is analyzed with a particular attention towards the significance of colors (Sect. 4.2.1), and towards camera shots, angles and movements (Sect. 4.2.2). The case study is the movie King Kong (Sect. 4.2.3). “Language”, finally (Sect. 4.3), is approached via the spoken (Sect. 4.3.1) and the written (Sect. 4.3.2) forms, with a case study on rhetoric and dialogues in different audiovisual texts (Sect. 4.3.3).
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Martinelli, D. (2020). Means: Sound, Image and Language. In: What You See Is What You Hear. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32594-7_4
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