Film Music: Blog #2

The film “Robin Hood” I definitely liked a lot better than any other films we’ve watched so far in class. Not just because they talk a lot more than there is music but because I love more action films than anything. The music went right a lot with all the fighting they did in the film and it really helped keep me on the edge of my seat. It also had more romantic temped music when Robin Hood and Maiden Marian were together; it was a symbol to the audience that they were falling in love with each other.

“Top Hat” and the music in this film really were like the total opposite of “Rodin Hood.” Yes, there was romance in “Robin Hood” but “Robin Hood” it had much more fighting than romance. “Top Hat” was complete romance, as you watched two young actors fall in love with each other. It also had confusion as you watched them fall in love, but the music gave you that tone to let you know, but when they fell in love the tone and tempo was more on the keys of soft and elegant to show the audience they were together. The Dynamic of the films music was loud yet soft and happy to show the happiness in the relationship that the young couple had. It’s funny how the melody its self actually makes you fall in love with Jerry Travers.

It was really cool when we watched the film during class about the different composers and you get to see how they got the music on the films. How they actually did it looks very complicated and time consuming but when compared to today making these films actually took little to no time at all. It was awesome to see the way the composers could time the whole entire symphony to play at the exact time they needed to in the film. It was like the maestro has control of every movement and note played by the symphony under one little stroke of this stick. The book showed how they would take and put punches in the film so that it would go through the projector and give “cues” to the composers to play certain parts of music as the exact time the punch would show up on the large screen in front of the composer.

Slowly but surely this class gets interesting, it’s very cool to sit back and look at how much film has come in all these years and how much film has and still does affect our lives every day.