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Stephanie MeyerKimberly Caron

Peter Fini

Music and Film

■ how film promotes, creates, distributes, etc. soundtracks

■ how music influences or causes the creation of film

■ how music adds and influences the ability of film to finesse our emotions - allowing film to compete more directly with TV

■ how music recognition and consistency allows movies to compete with TV

Musical influences

Kimberly Caron

• Music can cause an emotional response from the audience that is watching the film.

• Music can help portray an actor or actresses emotion at that point in the film.

Kimberly Caron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4

• A great composer makes a great movie score which then allows the movie to be more detailed and interesting.

• Film Score• Film music

Society (FMS)

Composers Composers

Movies Because of Music

Peter Fini

Collaboration music

• Collaborative music written as movie is being made– Examples– Star wars Theme– James Bond Songs– Lord of the Rings

Peter Fini

Movies Because of Music

• Movies created from music– Examples– Hurricane By Bob Dylan– Dazed And Confused by Led Zeppelin– Yellow Submarine by The Beatles

Peter Fini

Silent Films

• Not actually silent • Music, dialogue, audience, environment• Sound and music vital

Cassie

Talkies

• Cameras and microphones restricted movement

• Poor quality• Also known as the Golden Age

Cassie

Development of Music• Over time, film makers became more involved in music selection

process• 1920’s

– Musicals, Classical Scoring Technique• 1930’s

– Music connecting entire film– Academy Award for best score introduced– King Kong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRQH_hLcTw

• 1950’s– Jazz Music introduced, led to experiment of different types of music– Western films used similar orchestral techniques, added in guitar and

Spanish trumpet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYV-JSjpyU

Cassie

Development of Music continued…• 1960’s

– Science fiction and suspense films– New techniques, instrunments – Psycho (1960), Planet of the Apes (1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cabjo6bIkk • 1970’s

– Classical scores come back– Star Wars, Batman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ebnBZIpESY&feature=related • 1980’s

– Synthesized sound introducesd• Music Today

– Various roles, now enters pop culture– Vital to people– New market for revenue

Cassie

Film Sells Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0di9tiulb4Q• Songs can remind you of

movies• Movies can also remind you

of songs• Because of this, the film

industry helps sell music

Mike Schmidt

• Some artists create music specifically for movies

– Ex. Transformers– Linkin Park made 3 versions of the

song:• Original • A capella (singing without

music)• Instrumental

Composers write music for movies

• Composers write music for movies

• The movie is a hit, sell the CD!

• Example is Danny Elfman– Sold many albums from

music he made for movies

Mike Schmidt