Carrie Giunta is an associate lecturer in Philosophy at Central Saint Martins and a professional sound editor in New York and London. She was on the sound team that won a BAFTA for casino royale. Her thesis is called ‘A question of listening: Nancean Listening and Resonance in the Work of Charlie Chaplin’. It focuses on the silent character Charlie Chaplin and the philosophy of listening from all around the world.
http://carriegiunta.it/
She goes into how sound is undervalued in cinema and is seen as an afterthought. We go into the emotion in space and how it can shoddy in production as she says the desert doesn’t give good sound so many times it is fabricated to give a more intriguing illusion.
She then goes into why Charlie Chaplin’s films give a lot expression despite being a silent character and how the laugh track can give indicators of comedy but its actually the objects and expressions that carry the weight of the performance. Its an art form that takes a lot of skill but it also poses the philosophy of why we have a reliance of actions to make the sound heard.