Abstract. An adapted version of the Keynote Address for the 10th conference for
Music and the Moving Image delivered by Professor of Psychology Siu-Lan Tan at
NYU Steinhardt, on May 29 2015. Provides an overview of the empirical research
on film music and invites collaboration between the humanities and arts and
experimental sciences.
Figure 10. Shot III in the Battle on the Ice sequence from Alexander Nevsky (1938). Smith's dynamic heat map of fixations indicates most viewers are focusing on figure on the right.
Figure 11. Shot XII from 'Battle on the Ice' sequence. Smith's
dynamic heat map shows that gaze of viewers is dispersed.
Figure 12. Auer et al. found that horror music drew viewers'
attention to the darkest area of the river in this scene from The Painted Veil (2006).
Figure 13. Smith's dynamic heat map indicates viewers' gaze
drops down between (a) shot X and (b) shot XI in the 'Battle on the Ice'
sequence, in line with Eisenstein's intuitions.
The author is grateful to Tim J. Smith for permission to include screen captures from his 2014 study of Alexander Nevsky for Figures 10, 11, 12, 13a, and 13b.
VIDEO: Readers can view Tim J. Smith's video with dynamic heat maps at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBKRSFP9KUM
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