Donnelly, C (2021) I am Sitting in a Room, Listening to Mank. Screenworks, 12 (1).

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Abstract

The soundtrack for Mank (David Fincher, 2020) raises interesting questions about the reception of film sound in the domestic viewing/listening space. The ‘spatialisation’ of the film’s soundtrack through a process of re-recording on the Skywalker Scoring Stage introduces a ‘mediation’ of the soundtrack which is incompatible with recognised post-production sound practice. This research suggests that through this practise Mank’s soundtrack is rendered as a sonic installation, inextricably tied to the time, place, and sonic characteristics of the re-recording space. It also questions whether this re-recording method might not benefit those films released directly into the domestic market, retaining the reverberant sonic signature of cinematic exhibition.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > M Music P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Divisions:	Screen School
Publisher:	University of the West of England, Bristol
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	27 Oct 2022 15:05
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 15:05
DOI or ID number:	10.37186/swrks/12.1/1
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17956

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