Media production has largely been affected by various pieces of the film such as characters, focus, camera, lighting, symbols, speial effects and music among others both positively and negatively. There is overwhelming evidence that music affects media production and audience through presenting the ideas and inspiration, evoking human emotions. The music of the film Valerie and her week of wonders (1970) creatively intertwines with other aspects of entertainment to bring out the spiritual atmosphere, a smooth transitional phase from one theme to another, one emotional stage to another and preclusion of upcoming transitional scenes in the movie.
Valerie and her week of wonders (1970) is a classical movie that weaves the musical aspect of entertainment into the entire narrative to elicit an emotive, thought-provoking and illustrative theme of a spiritualistic society. The clearest musical theme is a spiritual dispensation that plays the largest role depicting the interrelationship between the contemporary secular life and the spiritual realms (Limpscomb 22). From …show more content…
The musical codes preclude the beforehand events in the film and show a progressiveness of ideas. The music of song ‘The Magic yard’ accompanies both the opening and closing credit titles rearranged in a key and slowed tempo (Limpscomb 23). The occasional music interludes apparently represent the tail end of the entire movie evolution from one scene to scene. The necessity of the interfusion is to prepare the mood, the mind-set and set an emotional stage for a rearrangement of the themes to succeed the preceding themes. The music as a preclusion makes the movie have predictability necessary to prepare the minds of the viewers. Also, the magic yard illustrates a continuous flow of one theme to another without an apparent breakdown of systemic flow of events (Adamscovell