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Presentation Gura Assignment
1.
2. WHAT DOES FILM MUSIC DO?
• Establishes settings
• Specifies a time and place
• Create a mood and atmosphere
• Identifies characters motives
• Contributes to the creation of
emotions
(Kalinak 2010)
3. “A soundtrack can carry a visual
along, be an unforgettable
addition to the film and
sometimes there is a small
moment of something really
great, which exists as beautiful
music on its own merit.”
(Hans Zimmer, n.d)
4. HOW DOES FILM MUSIC WORK?
Basic Principles of Music:
Melody Harmony Rhythm
Meter Volume Tempo
Form Timbre Instrumentation
(“How Film Music Works”, n.d.)
5. HOW DOES FILM
MUSIC WORK?
Conventions, shared between composers and
audiences, harness musical affect to concrete meaning
through the power of association; through repetition,
conventions become ingrained in a culture as a kind of
collective musical experience. Composers can use
conventions as shorthand to produce specific and
predictable responses on the part of listeners.
Star Wars Theme (Williams, 1997)
(“How Film Music Works”, n.d.)
6. WHY DOES FILM MUSIC WORK?
Understanding how film music works
is not the same thing as
understanding why it works. We need
to understand what sustained music
as a practice throughout film history.
What made it indispensable?
(Kalinak 2010)
7. WHY DOES FILM MUSIC WORK? Posited that it was music’s ability to provide unity through regular,
predictable, and audible rhythms that made it indispensable to film, a
medium comprised of individual shots, irregular in length, structure,
and content.
Similarly identified music’s ultimate utility to film as its power to unify,
a function of its construction as an art form constituted by time. Mitry
identified music’s “fundamental rhythmic structure” as that which
imparts to film “what it lacks: the notion of temporality”.
Argued that film needs music because it makes images pliable. Music
allows film “to wander at will through time and space, inducing the
audience to accept the cinematic manipulation of time and space
through editing.
(Kalinak 2010)
8. WHY DOES FILM MUSIC WORK
Examine the following 2 videos, and notice how the
music chosen can change the scene dramatically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrzBY_8ZAQw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeVVw791xQ
(filmmusicsurvey, 2007)
9. CONCLUSION
• Film music has come full circle
• Harkens back to silent film accompaniment
• Returning to its roots in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth century
• New frontiers
• Music in television
• Music videos
• Video Games
• Websites
(Kalinak 2010)
Editor's Notes
*Talking bits are highlighted in bold, references are in italics**Audio to be played on slide 5* (Already attached to the presentation)*Prepare 2 videos to be shown on slide 8*Image(The Radio City LOTR Concert, 2009)www.theradiocitylotrconcert.comBackground(Blue Background, n.d.)
Film music can do a variety of things. It can establish setting, specify a particular time and place; it can fashion in a mood and create atmosphere; it can call attention to elements off screen, thus clarifying matters of plot and narrative progression; it can reinforce or foreshadow narrative developments and contribute to the way we respond to them; it can elucidate characters’ motivations and help us to know what they are thinking; it can contribute to the creation of emotions, sometimes only dimly realized in the images, both for characters to emote and for audiences to feel.(Kalinak, 2010)Image(Studio Orchestra, n.d.)
Film music is, of course, music, and as such it brings to its functioning in film the basic principles of music: *Click once to show each principle as you go through the list and they will apear*melody, harmony, rhythm, meter, volume, tempo, form, timbre, and instrumentation. Music derives its power largely from its ability to tap into conventions derived from these principles. (“How Film Music Works”, n.d.)Image(Music Note, n.d.)
Conventions, shared between composers and audiences, harness musical affect to concrete meaning through the power of association; through repetition, conventions become ingrained in a culture as a kind of collective musical experience. Composers can use conventions as shorthand to produce specific and predictable responses on the part of listeners. For example, brass instrumentation, because of its association with the military, is linked to heroism and became a staple of Hollywood scoring in historical epics, especially swash-bucklers. *Play audio of Star Wars Theme (Williams, 1997)*When John Williams (b. 1932) relies on the brasses in his score for Star Wars (1977) rather than electronic instrumentation or futuristic musical sounds, he underscores the heroic arc of the film and connects the narrative, not to the genre of science fiction, but to the great swashbucklers of the classical Hollywood era. (“How Film Music Works”, n.d.)Image(Trombone, n.d.)
Why does film music have such power over us? What are the sources of its pleasures? And why should music have come to accompany film at all? To answer such intriguing question, we are going to need theory, a body of thought devoted to analyzing the deep and complex issues that underlie the framework of a discipline. Understanding how film music works is not the same thing as understanding why it works. We need to understand what sustained music as a practice throughout film history. What made it indispensable? (Kalinak, 2010)Image(Movie Crowd, n.d.)
There are many theories as to why film music works. Here are some theorists takes on film music. *Click once at the beginning of each theorists paragraph for text to appear*Karl LondonPosited that it was music’s ability to provide unity through regular, predictable, and audible rhythms that made it indispensable to film, a medium comprised of individual shots, irregular in length, structure, and content.Jean MitrySimilarly identified music’s ultimate utility to film as its power to unify, a function of its construction as an art form constituted by time. Mitry identified music’s “fundamental rhythmic structure” as that which imparts to film “what it lacks: the notion of temporality”. Michael ChionArgued that film needs music because it makes images pliable. Music allows film “to wander at will through time and space, inducing the audience to accept the cinematic manipulation of time and space through editing.(Kalinak, 2010)Image(Conducting Baton, n.d.)
The following two videos is a great example of how the choice of music for a particular scene can change the scene dramatically. *SHOW VIDEO FIRST*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrzBY_8ZAQw*SHOW VIDEO SECOND*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeVVw791xQNotice how the choice of music for the first video gives us the assumption that it is a happy scene, perhaps a re-uniting between the two characters, and the joyfulness of the music suggests it’s a happy ending. The second video on the other hand, comes across as very suspenseful and turns the boy in the film from an innocent child in the first video, to a mysterious, and scary character in the second. This is the power that film music has over the interpretation of a movie. Videos(filmmusicsurvey, 2007)Image(Film Reel and Clapperboard, n.d.)
Film music had its inception at the beginning of film history, and it continues to be part and parcel of film production today. Its practice has become virtually indispensible to the marketability of contemporary films through the world. In some ways, film music has come full circle. The advent of the compilation score harkens back to silent film accompaniment with its cue sheets of specific musical references, many of which quote popular music and song. Musical accompaniment is one of the many ways in which film as an art form is returning to its roots in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when Edison initially envisioned film viewing as an activity taking place in the home, an amalgamation of music and image experienced in the family parlor.There are new frontiers, too. It is interesting to consider the presence of power of music in television, and to even newer media such as music videos, video games, and websites. How and why did music become crucial to the ways in which these phenomena operate at least some of the time? Music in film, after all, is functional; it provides very specific qualities to the medium, qualities that film has come to depend upon. To what extent do these new media forms depend upon music as well? What functions that music provides to film might also prove crucial in the new arenas?(Kalinak, 2010)Image(Conductor, n.d.)
