ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on cinegraphy. This term, used in the early 20th century, corresponds to a form of making movies in which motion takes precedence, creating a narration close to musical meaning.
Following this lead, this chapter attempts to create a motion score, cinegraphic equivalent of a musical score. The score represents a movie we made in 2016, #wreckOfHope. The study deals with the making of this score, as the process of making itself should help to apprehend the object it is supposed to study.
It starts with a genealogical inquiry, focused on how were the motion made and perceived during the process of creation of the movie. The writing of the score itself, then, is conceived at the crossing between a timeline, a storyboard, a musical score and Labanotation. From the score, last, are drawn questions about the narration, its specific concepts – visual stretch and narrative relay – and limits – the texture.
The motion score is an attempt to acknowledge the operations of motion narration and meaning, as well as a basis of an allographic form of cinema; through this, this chapter hopes to draw a new path – a line of flight – into the process.
