“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet… maybe we could understand something.”   Federico Fellini

In italian to say “frame” we say “fotogramma”. The etymology is in two old Greek words: foto, phòs – photós, it’s mean “light” and gramma, grápho, it’s mean “writing”. In english “frame” has a different meanings: border, that surround, in this case, and supports a picture, a screen or a window to watch stories. The…

Recently I listened a director in a meeting about Film Sound saying: “[…] I read an article, when I was a young filmmaker, regarding a show movies with a beautiful picture and awful sound, and a show movie with a no good image a very good sound. The audience prefer the good sound than good…

I’m still impressed about how it is possible that we still have Homer’s poem, even though its stories have been passed onto the future generations orally. In fact, the transmission was an activity of the aoidoi, and then of the rhapsodes, who sang their own epic songs at the noble courts of the aristocracy. Oral…