"Mental pan" of the sound source. 
 

• The spectator will mentally place a voice as coming from off screen left, in tandem with visual indications about the person speaking, even through in an monaural movie theater the sound really emanates from a speaker behind the center of the screen 

• If a character is walking across the screen, the sound of the footsteps seems to follow his image, even though in real space, they continue to issue from the same stationary loudspeaker.

• Sounds of loudspeakers located somewhere in the room will be perceived as coming from the TV-screen 

Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen  is  available at Internet book stores as  Amazon books   Highly recommended
 

• The Voice in Cinema 
• David Lynch
• The Films of Jacques Tati 

• "Chion is a poet in theoretician's clothing" 

- Claudia Gorbman writes about Michel Chion

• Book Review: Michel Chion, Audio-Vision (Escom Newsletters)   

- by Nicola Phillips Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

• Michel Chion´s Terminology

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