ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at notable examples of current professional and academic literature that are relevant to this topic, and to the increasing interest in the study of sound and emotion. Holland proposes that a well-designed soundtrack is instrumental in engaging and enveloping a viewing audience, and a listening-viewer absorbed by on-screen activities forgets their own body and its immediate surroundings, enabling them to be transported to all kinds of otherwise improbable locations and situations. Whilst there is little research yet dealing specifically with moving picture sound design and emotions, there is a substantial body of research concerning both speech and emotions and music and emotions. Speech and music are two key elements of the compound that constitutes a moving picture soundtrack. Both contribute greatly to the viewing experience of movie audiences, not only by virtue of their expressing of emotion, but also by their being capable of inducing emotion in listening-viewers.
