2. Music
Music is incredibly important during films as it helps manipulate our
emotions. For example, the high pitched screeching sound is
normally related to panic/fear. This is used in many horror/thriller films
and puts the audience on the edge of their seat. Most of the time
people forget that the non-diegtic sound is edited in and they
normally just believe that that clip is played over the actors while
they film. They are aware that certain sounds are linked with certain
emotions and the film company did this on purpose as it tells the
audience how the film wants you to feel.For example, the sad
moment of the film would either have very slow, depressing music or
in some cases no non-diegetic music at all. This lets the audience
feel the raw pain of the character as silence is one of the most
influential sounds.
3. Our Sequence
Throughout our opening sequence we will need at least
one backing track to play with our sequence. Our
sequence is very fast paced with various different shots
and angles so we want our music to match this. Due to
our sequence being in the genre of a thriller, we need to
keep the music quite sinister and mysterious. The non-diegetic
music will be used to create a sound bridge
from shot to shot and will keep the audience entertained
while the action is unfolding on screen.
4. Editing
Music editing is often discrubed as an audiovisual puzzle. In its most
basic sense it is taking a pre-existing track and chopping it up so
that it fits a film cue so perfectly that it seems it was made
specifically for that scene. Let’s say you need a 30 second cue
(that’s another name for a piece of music in a film) and the
filmmaker wants to use a song that’s 3 minutes long. You’ll have to
take a section of the track that best fits the scene and edit it in. Or
you can have the opposite, where the filmmaker has a longer cue,
let’s say 1 minute, and wants to use a piece of music that’s only 43
seconds long. Either way, it’s only once in a blue moon that the
track and cue length are the same length and work perfectly
together. This is why we edit.
