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Music In Films - Coggle Diagram
Music In Films
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Time, by Hans Zimmer, in the film inseption
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Texture slowly builds over several minutes. Strings, piano, brass, guitar, percussion.
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More features
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Musical styles can rapidly change to reflect the action too, especially in comedy films.
Ostinatos (repeated patterns) can be used to suggest things, such as horse’s feet or a heartbeat.
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To keep up with the plot, the melody, harmony and tempo are often quickly changing.
Film music has to be understood immediately, so there is no time for long developments of themes. It rarely uses common, set structures.
Temo, the speed of music often represents the mood of the film.
A slow tempo creates a sad or emotional feeling, or can reflect slow, tense action.
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A tempo the opposite to what is going on on screen, for example, fast action and slow music, could suggest all is not as it seemed.
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Orchestration
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For example, bagpipes suggest the location is Scotland or maybe Ireland.
Tonality
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Major keys create a happy, joyful mood.
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Chromaticism (using every note) and dissonance (clashing notes) creates a feeling that something creepy is happening or something is about to go wrong.
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Leitmotif
A leitmotif is a tune that returns throughout the film. It represents a particular object, idea or character.
A leitmotif
When there is a theme tune for the same charcter enters in a movie, like "darth vaders theme" omes on when he enters.
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Composers use lots of repetition in film music.
It can remind you of something that happened earlier in the film. There may be variations such as a change of key, instrumentation, etc.
Some films use pop songs as part of their soundtrack – they’re usually released in the charts to gain publicity.
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