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26 September 2025

The Narrative of the Body: A Study on the Design of Breathing Sounds in Films

Junxie Lei*
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1 School of Film, Television and Communication, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, Sichuan, China
LNE 2025 , 3(8), 319–324; https://doi.org/10.18063/LNE.v3i8.865
© 2025 by the Author. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

As a subtle bodily sound, breathing sounds in films can serve as a medium to express the body and the environment, possessing the dual attributes of “story” and “discourse” in narration. The narration of breathing sounds presents distinct embodied characteristics, including the directness of presenting physical information, the rhetoric of internal focalization and emotional externalization, which can highlight people’s sense of existence in the air and the environment. The design and application of breathing sounds in films not only provide auditory materials and backgrounds for story scenes, becoming part of the narrative content, but also have narrative and aesthetic significance such as marking and rhetoric.

Keywords
Breathing sounds
Film sound design
Bodily narration
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