Tom, Imran and I walked around recording nature sounds, in the end we didn't need them.
We also recorded a dog barking but we don't need that either because the film changed so much and the dog became a giant chess piece.
The answers.com definitions for formalism are as follows:
1. Rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms, as in religion or art.
2. An instance of rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms.
3. A method of aesthetic analysis that emphasizes structural elements and artistic techniques rather than content, especially in literary works
