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- “It can establish setting” – for example, 80s music playing in a film set in the 80s or romantic classical music playing in a film set in the 19th<\/sup> century can let the audience know that the story takes place in a certain time period.<\/li>
- “it can fashion a mood and create atmosphere” – if we think about one example of typical horror film music, we get high pitched, staccato strings which create tension and stress as the audience await whatever comes next.<\/li>
- “it can reinforce or foreshadow narrative developments” – this can manifest in the leitmotif of certain characters. A musical theme is introduced for a character early in the film, and you may hear the theme before the character appears onscreen – but you know they’re here.<\/li>
- “it can elucidate characters\u2019 motivations and help us to know what they are thinking” – one general example could be a protagonist feeling somewhat defeated, but they recognise they need to find the inner strength to go on; this could be represented through grand music that slowly builds and swells, reflecting the character building themselves up to keep going.<\/li>
- “film music encourages our absorption into the film by distracting us from its technological basis” – essentially, film music takes a series of two-dimensional images and adds a third dimension to it, elevating what the viewers see, building upon the visual base.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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The next part of our Moving Image Composition research came in the form of a new source of information, which is “The Fundamental Elements of Film Music” on YouTube (attached below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n