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Chapter 9
The Procedure of Free Description of an
Audiovisual Corpus
9.1.Introduction
The analysis, the description of an audiovisual text, is, technically speaking, the
process of making a conceptual term and/or a configuration of conceptual terms
conform (in the analyst's view) to the specificities of the audiovisual text being
analyzed.
In concrete terms, this conformation consists of specific actions such as
identification of a
filmicobject latosensu
in an audiovisual text (including filmed
situations, filmed activities, people and groups, objects
per se
, etc.), conceptual
categorization of it, designation or denomination of it, presentation, interpretation,
relation with other filmic objects, and so on.
In this chapter, we shall present one of the two main procedures which make this
conformation possible - the procedure that we call
free description
. As we shall see,
free description includes all the activities which should enable the analyst to
identify, explicitize, explain or concretely index a knowledge object thematized and
expressed as discourse in a concrete audiovisual text.
Free description is, in fact, one of the two procedures which are to be found in
the task of
referential description*
(i.e. in the task of description of the topical level
of an audiovisual text; see Chapters 5 and 6) and also in the description of
discourse
production*
around the topic (see Chapter 7) or of its
audiovisual mise en scène
.
