The “Quand le son crée l’image” competition was created in 2018 on the initiative of La Semaine du Son. Each year, La Semaine du Son solicits a composer to create an original soundtrack from which participants are invited to create a short film, without modifying it, but with complete freedom in the image techniques used (live action, animation, …).

The “When Sound Creates Image” competition is part of an approach the relationship between image and sound..
En amenant les participants à se glisser dans une posture de créateurs d’images, le concours a pour objet reveal the narrative potential of sound.

In our image-driven world, it’s becoming essential to teach (reteach) the very young to listen, precisely in order to see better..
Car le son n’est pas qu’un habillage esthétique, mais un outil crucial de la création audiovisuelle et souvent un personnage à part entière de l’œuvre cinématographique.

To date, the competition is divided into four branches:

• the national school competition, in partnership with the French Ministry of Education
• the international school competition, in partnership with the UNESCO Associated Schools Network
• the international competition in partnership with the Institut français
• the eco-responsible high schools competition, in partnership with the Lycées Éco-responsables d’Île-de-France initiative.

School competitions are designed to develop both a theoretical and practical approach to the relationship of the relationship between Image and Sound, to enable students to acquire the ability to understand and analyze the film object.

Teachers can use this competition as an opportunity to address :

Image and sound education:

• learn to analyze a film: what you see, what you hear and what it tells in relation to the director’s intention
• exercise judgment on works produced from the same soundtrack, and put your own work into perspective.
• discover the history of the use of sound and music in cinema

An education in creation :

• learn to listen and imagine a scenario based on sound
• retranscribe ideas through the different stages of elaboration studied above
• create images and edit them from sound

With lhe international dimension of its competition, La Semaine du Son aims to reflect the diversityas well as the richness ofs visions that a single soundtrack can create.
This international dimension is a teaching tool for students to explore the multiplicity of cultures and their impact on short films made based on the same starting point.

Launched in 2020, this branch of the competition in collaboration with the French Ministry of Education’s Mission Éducation Artistique et Culturelle (EAC) is aimed at students from 4ème to terminale in the 30 académies.

The competition is divided into three categories:

Middle schoolHigh schoolLycée spécialisé (option enseignement artistique et S2TMD)

Born of a collaboration between La Semaine du Son and UNESCO, this section of the competition is dedicated to students of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet).
The 1st edition was launched in 2021-2022.
The specificity of this international competition is that every year, students are invited to create their own short films following a theme.
Click here to find out more about the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network.

The very first section of the competition launched by La Semaine du Son in partnership with the Institut Français, the international competition is aimed at amateurs, students and professionals in the audiovisual and film industries.

This section of the competition, aimed at the 249 Eco-Responsible high schools in the Paris region, was launched in 2024 in partnership with the Île-de-France Region’s Lycées Eco-Responsables initiative.
Focusing on the environment, this section of the competition invites high-school students to work on the notion of sound ecology.