Punctuated!...?;"*`-'@

I always wonder before I write these, "Should the 'required' blog necessarily be longer or more engaging than the 'free-for-all' blog?"  I have yet to answer myself in any way to even begin.  But for the sake of this paragraph, I have very little to say about punctuation.  Period.

Although it is quite noticeable in most of it's forms as described in Chion's book, it still is about as important as something's color.  You can point out an object's color but whether it's function is an important factor is somewhat separate from it's existence.  

For example:

"That apple is red!" Ted exclaims!

Now depending on the situation it could be very important or not very important.

Very Important: The red apple that someone is about to eat is poisoned and it was the only red apple in the vicinity of a large amount of, let's say, green apples.

Not Very Important:  The red apple is among other apples of the same color.  Now what Ted exclaims is quite irrelevant or maybe even just overly obvious.  (They're all red Ted.)

Now.  The analogous part of the blog:

If something were to be punctuated and have meaning:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon fight scene.  They are making careful choices to punctuate specific things she is doing rather than all of them.  Footsteps have been omitted unless they are integrated into a 'fighting move'.

Let's say now we watch an episode of "Leave it to Beaver" and The Beav' walks in and absolutely everything he does has a sound effect.  Everything is meticulously punctuated to an insane extreme.  Punctuation would loose all meaning and I would be laughing hysterically.

So.  We come to the end of my argument.  I think that it is as important as a nonchalantly placed color in certain circumstances, but is only useful when being quite specific about a certain point in a film- usually for added significance.

Final unrelated coincidence in my argument:

Color was not integrated in film in the beginning;

Sound was not integrated in film in the beginning.

Eh?  Eh?