Framton's Formula

Love’s Refrain included a lot of random images that did not seem to have much connection to each other. However it could be said that they are connected through their randomness, like images you take in on a walk. It seems to portray movement around the world which can have a large degree of randomness. If you take Frampton’s suggestion that the film is about what you notice the most, than this film would be about branches. Just about any image that reoccurred was a shot looking through or focusing on the movement of branches, but it would be difficult to characterize the film as being about branches. You could say it is a film about nature, but just about any image in a film can be described as depicting the nature of something. In this way Frampton’s theory is not helpful, but if you take it to mean which idea, or theme or feeling did you notice the most to be the meaning than you might have a more accurate idea of what the film is about. If you notice randomness the most in the film, you could say it is a film about randomness, even though randomness is not depicted as an image or a sound. Thinking of the film as being about randomness is probably more helpful than saying it is about branches. This film is silent but if a film doesn’t have to be about an image that is projected it could theoretically be about a sound as well as a feeling. Also if you don’ take the sound of the performer to be literal it could have a lot to do with the sounds of the images. If it feels cluttered or bright this could be a form of loudness, so a silent film could theoretically be about loudness. The sound of the projector was not as noticeable with this film as it was with just a white screen, maybe because the images were loud enough to distract from it. So the sound of the performer does not necessarily have to be a sound, but can also be an image or a feeling conveyed by the piece.