Theory

When sound is combined with visuals the audience is practically unaware of its presence. They simply forget that
it's there and get immersed in the total experience. Sound and visuals also have the ability to transfer their specific
'qualities' onto one another....
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Sound and image : Recommended reading

Nicholas Cook - Analysing musical multimedia. Oxford University Press
A general theory on how different media - music, sounds, moving pictures work together to create mutimedia.

Roland Barthes - Image, music, text. Fontana Press
Structural analysis of narrative and of the semiotics of photograph and film.

Claudia Gorbman - Unheard melodies - Narrative film music. BFI Publishing
Theory and analysis to explain the functions of music in narrative cinema.