Keywords

Childhood, soundtrack, audio-visual, cinema, television, meaning, sense, multimodal

Abstract

Audiovisual media are part of children´s daily life. They build and/or replace a part of the reality that is sometimes preceded. This paper is interested in one of the elements of the audiovisual binomial, the soundtrack, in order to analyse its meaning and sense from the children’s point of view. The objectives are: to determine if the audiovisual media clips to which children are exposed (sound, image and all) are perceived differently; to establish the possible differences in the assessment they make when comparing the sound and image presentation modalities. Fourteen audiovisual media (movies, series, cartoons and documentaries) were identified by 115 children (10-12 years old) as preferred. Audiovisuals were edited in three modalities (sound, image, and all) and grouped into different series of three clips, which were watched in group sessions by 547 Spanish and Argentinian children (mean age: 11 years old). An Assessment Questionnaire of audiovisual clips was designed and implemented. Results showed differences in the meaning of the soundtrack in three of the five categories of the questionnaire. The significant predominance of the sound in series, documentaries and, especially, movies is highlighted. Contextual space-time elements, affective implications, feelings, and empathy as well as assessment of the experience are all perceived by means of the sound (the music).

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Received: 19-10-2016

Revised: 23-11-2016

Accepted: 13-03-2017

OnlineFirst: 15-05-2017

Publication date: 01-07-2017

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Porta-Navarro, A., & Herrera, L. (2017). Music and its significance in children favourite audiovisuals. [La música y sus significados en los audiovisuales preferidos por los niños]. Comunicar, 52, 83-92. https://doi.org/10.3916/C52-2017-08

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