As a blind person, being able to understand a movie can be a little more challenging than it is for people who can see. There are a lot of visual elements like lighting, colors, and camera angles that I don't know about if nobody has described them to me. However, there are things that do help. For example, the dialog in a movie, and the timing of when certain things are said, play an important role in understanding what's going on. Another important part of a movie, that also helps determine what's happening, is the soundtrack. There are two major kinds of movie soundtracks. In some movies, popular songs are used. An example of this kind of movie would be the Devil Wears Prada. Although you can get a general idea of the content of a scene, …show more content…
Muir, a movie that has been part of my life since practically the day I was born, has a soundtrack that is a very good example of music that displays these characteristics. This soundtrack was written by Bernard Herrmann, and most people would agree that it was his best work, which is easy to understand when you listen to it. There are lots of very noticeable patterns whenever the place, time, and mood changes in a scene. I've seen the movie, and listened to the soundtrack so many" times now, that the two might as well be one and the same, and the songs on the album are linked in my head to what's happening in the movie. However, I can easily say that, without much knowledge of the story, it's not hard to tell at least a little bit of the content of the scene based solely on the …show more content…
In the beginning of the movie, there's a scene in which the widow Mrs. Lucy Muir, the main character, her daughter Anna, and her maid Martha, board a train to Whitecliff, on the coast of England. The music in this scene is very reminiscent of the sound of an old steam train, which they would have been riding. (The movie is set at the turn of the twentieth century.) It has a fast pace to it, and a duple beat that gives it an unmistakable train-like character. Another important pattern in the music shows up in scenes where the sea is involved. The sea is a big part of the movie's plot, and as such, you'll notice that a lot of the songs have wave-like patterns to them, which represent the waves of the ocean. Most of the time, the pattern is a slow, calm one, but there are other times when it changes. In one particular scene near the end, it shows years passing by with waves. As the waves in the sea get bigger and higher, so does the music. There is a clear pattern in which the music goes up and down in much higher waves than normal. The same goes for different environments. For scenes that take place in London, the music gets a lot faster than in other
For example, Marlowe discovers that Geiger's books store was a smut book racket, the identity of Carmen's blackmailer and his murderer, what really happened to Eddie Mars's wife and the identity of Sean Regan's murderer. Nonetheless, the resulting fast paced plot engages the viewer. Unlike reading a novel, watching a movie involves one's auditory senses. In this case, music was carefully composed and selected to emphasize the confusion and rush. For example, fast paced music creates a feeling of tension and can be used to build suspense.
through the contrast between the music and the visuals. The tone of each scene relies purely on
At the start of the film, Marker put in this familiar noises of the planes to tell us that it was situated at the airport. Without the use of the sound in this particular scene, it would be just a photo montage whereby the viewers wouldn't probably feel the present of planes. Music helps to establish a sense of the pace at each of the accompanying scene and sometimes overlap voice-over musical score. At the beginning of the film, the images of the war torn Paris was accompanied by some sort of choir music that sounded very depressing and melancholic which then adds to the atmosphere. With the film starting off with this eerie atmosphere could also foreshadow a depressing storyline later on, that the protagonist meets his own death. Furthermore with the deliberate use of music in various part of the film, it kind of foreshadow the tragic ending whereby the fixated image of him as a child watching someone die at the
background music. The few instances in which the director does include music appear to accent
How does it feel starting over in a completely new place? In the movie “The Karate Kid”, Daniel, the main character, and his mom moved to the California from New Jersey because of his mom’s new job offer. Daniel started going to school in California and met a girl named Ali, whom he started to like. He started going out with her. Daniel was getting beat up by some bullies; one of them was Ali’s ex-boyfriend. They knew karate very well, but Daniel did not. So Daniel decided to learn karate. Daniel and his mom were living in an apartment and one day he discovers that the handyman at his apartment, Mr.Miyagi, knows karate very well. He asked Mr.Miyagi to teach him karate, and Mr.Miyagi became his karate teacher. It was hard for him to make new friends in a new place and he believed that Mr.Miyagi would be the only best friend he ever met.
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
Music can decipher a narrative event by indicating a perspective. To unify a set of diverse images and provide rhythmic and formal continuity and momentum, a film’s structure is more often than not, directly articulated by a musical structure. Music can assist the dialogue and visuals of film and often is inaudible (e.g. music is meant to be heard unconsciously, not consciously). Music has been used by directors to reinforce or strengthen certain weak scenes in film and then on the other hand when music is not needed to reinforce a scene
For example, once the director introduces a soundtrack that makes the viewer get an essence of being there in the moment and following the protagonist throughout his whole adventure while seeking for his daughter. For example, when the director includes the soundtrack titled, “On the Boat” it gives the audience the feeling of thrill, the music combines both the concept of action and hope, the reason being that it makes the viewer want the protagonist to accomplish his goal on retrieving his daughter to safety while also getting the whole action
with and have heard Symphony No. five by Beethoven. Whether it was a theme in movie
The movie I decided to analyze for this course was American History X (1998), which stars Edward Norton. Though this movie isn’t widely known, it is one of the more interesting movies I have seen. It’s probably one of the best films that depict the Neo Nazi plague on American culture. The film takes place from the mid to late 1990’s during the Internet boom, and touches on subjects from affirmative action to Rodney King. One of the highlights of this movie that really relates to one of the key aspects of this course is the deterrence of capital punishment. Edward Norton’s portrayal as the grief stricken older brother who turns to racist ideologies and violence to cope with his fathers death, completely disregards the consequences of his actions as he brutally murders someone in front of his family for trying to steal his car. The unstable mentality that he developed after his father’s death really goes hand-to-hand specifically with Isaac Ehrlich’s study of capital punishment and deterrence. Although this movie is entirely fictional, a lot of the central themes (racism, crime punishment, gang pervasiveness, and one’s own vulnerability) are accurate representations of the very problems that essentially afflict us as a society.
A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.
The score seems to be set around the events of the story. For example when he is watching the ship sink, the peak of this music happens when he is turned and experiencing the inability to save his family or do anything in the moment. A few moments later, he is calling out for his family in agony and as a wave hits his face and he screams the score peaks a second time. This is relevant to the story because it really gives the audience a peak into the emotions that the protagonist is experiencing as well at the immense
The music suited the movie very nicely. By the type of music playing, you could determine what sort of scene was coming up, either fast and light...
Different from other types of films, the music in Phantom of the Opera was used by all the characters, as a way to tell their part of the story. The music created a convincing surrounding for the film, guided the audiences. The music was constantly a signifier of emotion, as the characters expressed their feelings through the songs. The music score was an emotional and scary score that tied into their diegetic/non-diegetic singing, giving the main characters an identity, specifying situations and places to help connect certain points. When we hear the dark music play throughout the movie, it plays a certain theme, that theme gives the viewers a clear hint of who or what the music is talking about. Another example of signifier of emotion was in The Devil Wears Prada, where the film used either fast upbeat songs for when Andy walks all around the city, running errands for Miranda, or romantic alternative music when Andy is with her boyfriend and true friends (The Phantom of the Opera/The Devil Wears
The importance of music in movies is highly regarded for manipulating the viewer’s emotions and helping them immerse into the story. Music is one of the prime elements in cinema. Without it a movie would feel dull and unexciting. There are three elements in a movie: one is acting, the second is picture, and the third one is music. It is a holy trinity; if incomplete, there would be a lack of sensation and excitement. Both acting and picture can stand independently from one another, but music is the one that makes the movie memorable.