Music is the essential, universal language. It expresses emotion, a story, and records a generation in history. In the classical and baroque era, music was written to tell a story and emphasize the emotion within that story. Music still tells stories today; movies, games, and regular songs tell stories with emphasized emotions. Games require music to set the mood and energy for specific scenarios.…
My main goal is to use sound to convey the mood of a scene and to manipulate the audience’s emotions. Another important scene in my film is the flashback of the little girl’s life before type 1 diabetes. In order to create a lot of emotion with the audience, the scene will include a slow, sad song such as the instrumental version on “Concrete Angel” by Martina McBride. The instrumental version of the song allows the audience to focus on the family’s emotions rather than the song itself. All of these sound elements really create and help demonstrate the theme of the film.…
CREED Creed was nominated for the oscars in 2016 for best supporting actor being Sylvester Stallone. He did an amazing job playing rocky in this movie. Although he was not the main focus of this movie, he played a big role in training the main character Adonis Creed. Adonis is the son of Apollo Creed. However, He did not know his father because he was killed doing the one thing that he loved most.…
Music plays an instrumental role throughout our lives. Before we’re born, many of us are exposed to music in the womb. Upon death, music greets us once again to mourn and celebrate a life filled with music. Music is truly there in every part of our life. Despite this constant exposure to music, we rarely step back to ponder how music impacts us.…
For instance in Edward Scissorhands when Edward is looking at the families pictures the music is light and fluffy like, which makes the family feel safe and loving. Burton also uses using sound in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with the scene where Charlie Bucket finds the last golden ticket in the shop and the music all of a sudden softens but is high pitched at the same time creating a heroic exciting moment. Lastly Burton uses sound in the film Big Fish when Edward Bloom first meets the giant and the music gets really loud and dark making the giant seem intimidating and…
When it comes to the technical aspects of Dr. Strangelove, no two are more important than the sound/music and the framing. The music and sound included in the film play an incredibly important role in guiding the audience from scene to scene and signaling shifts in mood as well as increases/decreases in tension. For example, each time that Major Kong and his men on the B-52 are reintroduced, the patriotic theme (the tune of which is a play on When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again) aptly named Bomb Run is played. Also, at the very end of the film, clips of the doomsday bomb exploding are played alongside Vera Lynn’s…
Music is what sets the scene for the world around us. Soundtracks in movies tell us something big is going to happen or when a romantic moment is happening. It creates the mood, adds suspense, and adds excitement. Our favorite song can make us dance or sing in the car or boost the lowest of moods. It was no different during the Civil War.…
Music is so wide spread you hear it everywhere you go. There’s music playing in the elevator, in movies, in church, and more. Music can start a conversation. For example, if you are on a date at a restaurant and you hear a song playing, you might say something like, “wow I really love this song.” In commercials, the most entertaining advertisements have a jingle involved.…
Music helps people deal with emotions. People have learned to become more compassionate and kind due to learning and listening to music. Leslie Blunt conducted a series of test that show the outcomes of what sounds create what feelings. In order to get subjects to feel happy “ fast, flowing tempos with lively, skipping, dotted rhythms with a firm pulse are required. High pitching and rising melodies are also necessary.…
One of the best examples of the power in a soundtrack is Christopher Nolan's newest Film; Dunkirk. I had the pleasure of watching this Film in IMAX 70MM and it is an absolutely fantastic experience, while I won't go into detail because I don't want to spoil it; this is the perfect example of how to use music in film. Christopher Nolan is quite well known for having mostly good scripts that occasionally take a nosedive into heavy handedness and occasionally just really bad dialogue. Whether it's Cobb's wife being named Mal, which is latin for bad or evil.…
Jaws has been memorable since its release in 1975, but most of its success is due to the magic of editing, which helped hide mechanical defects of production while heightening suspense, and its iconic music, both of which cemented Jaws’ position as a blockbuster. Though the concept of the titular creature becomes obvious shortly after the film beings, the crazily large man eating shark remains mostly unseen throughout the film. Unfortunately, the technology was not available to construct a large realistic shark, so rather than come off looking absurdly unrealistic, the choice was made to leave the image of the shark up to the editors, who were left with horrible raw footage of a floating barge, and transformed it into something the viewers were genuinely afraid of.…
Music in film can have many purposes. It can change the mood of the audience, alert them to danger, or even be used to give exposition of the story to the audience. The latter, along with its variation, such as a monologue delivered in song, are used to create musicals--a genre used by Disney since its very beginning. For this journal I watched Disney’s Moana to see how it used music to move the plot, and influence its audience.…
Let’s first talk about what music is, before we explain its correlation to psychology. Music has no concepts, no images, no symbols or any relation to language, yet it has a power over human emotions we can only begin to understand. What is music? In Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, Childhood’s End, alien beings puzzled over this question. They themselves lacked music, and therefore were immensely confused at the emotional reactions humans had to “meaningless tonal patterns”.…
Music has been a part of people’s everyday lives for so long. It even evolved in a lot of different ways, then again, not everyone knows how much it actually affects the human mind and body. It doesn’t just make us sing along when we hear some of our favorite songs, it doesn’t just make us dance and groove, but it also has amazing scientific and medical effects. According to neuroscientist and author of This Is Your Brain on Music, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, when people try to understand what exactly is the meaning of music and where it actually came from, people could have a better understanding on how it affects their motive, desires, memories, fears, and even communication. “Is music listening more along the lines of eating when you’re hungry, and thus satisfying an urge?…
1. When we sing and dance together our brains synchronize. Why is this important? How does this contribute to the development of culture?…