I found that the “great train robbery” had music that actually went with the whole theme of the movie. The movements of the robbers were very fast, and very upbeat and when the people went after the robbers the music becomes more of a “chase like” tempo. The robbers were very mysterious and they tried to make themselves look dangerous, so the composer of the music made the music have an allegro tempo. The composer used a minor scale for the film, which really worked and gave it the emotion that the robbers were up to no good.
The book talks about how composers use music to create a mood, which is how they make the video fit it’s self, and make the movie make sense. You’re able to understand the story of the film without words, all you hear is the emotions in the music. Also the book talks about wall to wall music, which is just like it sounds. Its how the music will start from the very beginning of the film and the music will end at the very end of the film too. Many songs of the early 1900’s, called Lumiere clips have wall to wall music.
The film “A trip to the moon” has a lot of music in it, and it helped bring more of a comedy flavor to the film, which to me was very funny. The music started to speed up and sound very fun when the astronomers were being chanced by the people on the moon. It was funny because even though there were no words the tempo and scaled of the music made the chase fit. The mood of the whole film was more comedy then, serious like it was in the film “The Battleship Potemkin.” In that film there was fighting, rebellion, and grieving emotions and each emotion had its own type of music. This film had more of a minor scale and chromatic scale verses having a major scale as in the first film.
I love how you can watch movies that have no words and the music brings in the emotion and everything that words could do. “The jazz singer” had some words in the film, when he was singing but they mainly used music and word cards. The emotion the music used brought you to tears at some points, like when he wanted to help his father after his father disowned him. The music also brought you to smiling and happy when he was singing and then flirting the Mrs. Dale. Music can give so much emotion to a film, the way I see it music brings a story in its self to a film.
it’s self, = itself but it would be enough. wall-to-wall
ReplyDelete"It[']s how the music will start from the very beginning of the film and [the music will end at] play to the very end [of the film too.]"
"Many songs of the early 1900’s, called Lumiere clips have wall to wall music." What does this sentence mean?
"The mood of the whole film was more comedy then, serious like it was in the film 'The Battleship Potemkin.' " The whole film was a comedy, unlike the serious The Battleship Potemkin.
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