Sound fiction and verbodependent creativity. Sound short stories without words

Abstract

Introduction: the rise of current sound fiction requires, from Communication studies, attention that verifies the abilities of students in fictional sound creation for their future work. The dependency on the visual image and the word that the young generations have, requires, in turn, an empirical verification. Methodology: the experience that is now presented carries out an action of writing sound fiction micro-stories, designed to detect the difficulties encountered by the students when putting into practice all the sound elements with the absence of the word, incorporating it after gradually in different phases of script writing. The guided writing work is completed with a double movement: one analytical on the scripts made and another based on the surveys completed by the authors on the complexity of this task of scriptwriting. Results: the micro-stories generated had a total lack of non-verbal sound resources, without exploitation of other elements of sound language. Discussion: the results confirm a "functional deafness" that leads to a failure to build fictional sound stories, beyond the design of soundscapes. Conclusions: the analysis of the creations points to the existence of a variation in the cognitive narrative of the new and future generations of creators and listeners regarding sound.