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Background and incidental music and sound — when to do it?
In films, there’s often music in the background. I think this is mostly because the days of silent films, there was no dialogue and therefore no soundtrack and therefore silence. The easiest thing in the world was to borrow from a similar format of the theatre, and put musicians with the screening and have music playing to match the visuals. The theatrical use of sound being already maturely developed by then, whereas cinema was young and could have gone in any direction back then.
Now we have situations where a film can’t be released without music occurring between the start and the end. Even though we have proper sound tracks, dialogue, sound effects, and ambient sounds. There’s still music in there, for what can only be no good reason. My life doesn’t have music beds in the background, incidental stings, odd notes and small clusters of steps from one note or group of concurrent notes, to another. And yet films do. Some films have whole songs, even. Sometimes it is because it is a musical (i.e., Grease), and therefore everyone breaks out in song, exactly like people don’t in real life. Sometimes the film does resemble real life, but the songs are simply present and even take a pivotal role (i.e., American Werewolf in London). Other times theres something always droning along in the background but calling it a song would be a stretch.
Adverts on telly have music a lot, too. There aren’t that many silent adverts, and there aren’t many that are incidental sounds and dialogue only. There’s always the temptation to shove in something that has notes and which came out of an instrument of some sort.
This is so accepted, it must seem mundanely obvious and therefore why should I even bring it up? The format of whatever we see on the screen (cinema, television, tablet) is always accompanied by instrument sounds, and this is beyond question, it’s the way it is of course. Too obvious. Why do I bring it up? It’s like pointing out that actually, trees have leaves and by the way, they‘re usually green.
What about other formats? Have you been to a lecture, in school, college or university? Was that accompanied by musical stings, or was there a background bed of music? Was the narrative punctuated with music and did the taught subject build up in a way that the music enhanced, with changes and tension and release all aided by sonic instrumentation? Did the lecturer then break out in song?
When we see a documentary on telly, is that like a lecture? But hang on, there’s music or bits of music in there. Well, there is now. 20 years ago there wouldn’t be.
These bits of music and sound and beds and stings and suchlike. How long should they be? What is too long? What is too short? Who says so? Why doesn’t anyone question their fiction? Should the news have them too? The weather? A book I’m reading? Where’s the background music for that? Do we simply not question it these days because we’re of the walkman generation, and therefore it is actually true to say that our life is a musical? Is there any science in all of this? Yet?
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When your projector is too loud or the audience is noisy lol!
I'm only sort of joking there, as that was why they originally used music on film. Then they later discovered it had other beneficial effects on the listener / viewer of the film.
When I went to college to study photography and film, we were made to watch films without the sound and write the emotional impact desired at certain stages. Then we had to discuss how using sound we would accomplish this.
Lots of reading matter on the Internet and a fascinating subject, well worth further investigation for anyone that wants their music to influence people emotionally in certain ways.
I always thought American werewolf in London wasn't real.. But now you got me all worried !
What you feel works..no rules.
I so had a crush on the nurse in that film.
I'm in favor of nurses. And London.
I had a Napoleonic Wars class where
the professor always played period compositions at the beginning and end of every class.
That's my only experience with music during a lecture in a non-music class.
There are plenty of good reasons. The chief one being that music is evocative, it stirs emotions, it drags back memories into vivid focus, it makes you feel in ways that visuals alone can't muster. Great directors know that film is the sum of audio and visual experiences. The two are largely inseparable.
Poor you. My life has all these and many more invigorating bumps, squeaks, whistles, clicks, cries, howls and a multitude of other sounds that go to build the soundtrack that accompanies my days. All you have to is listen, it is there. (When the tinnitus isn't trying to ruin it)
And yes, people regularly break out into song too
The two are largely inseparable.
And I think even that understates the issue by a fair measure.
I'm learning..
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One of my favorite scenes is the opening to The Shining. It was performed by Wendy Carlos. @u0421793 do you like scenes like this where the music adds emotion, etc to a montage? The flying camera and edits work together to create something more.
Most film makers don't try to replicate real life in their films. They are trying to communicate something to the audience and they make use of all the tools at their disposal - music being one of the most powerful.
If he keeps at it that young Kubrick could have a future....
lol
Ha! JGY strikes again
Kubrick was a BIG fan of music in his films and treated his scores like a member of the cast. John Carpenter comes to mind as another film-maker who is very effective at adding music (his own) to enhance film. And Michael Mann struck gold using Tangerine Dream's music to score The Keep, even if the movie itself bombed.
Mann also struck gold when he used Jan Hammer to score Miami Vice. Not the main theme but what he recorded for each episode.
Wasn't Manhunter Mann also? That was very something or other music-wise (of that style), but then The Warriors first got me into that sound...can't remember now (shorthand for can't be arsed to IMDB it) but think Barry De Vorzon did a lot of that soundtrack. Used to play it Friday nights before....well, doing what we used to do in South London on Friday nights back then.
On reflection, hard to believe Kubrick would only complete two more movies after the Shining ...
OT, but I loves me some Schon & Hammer
It seems to me that: if it appears on a rectangular screen, and it moves, it must have music in there somewhere.
it should also smell funny... and feel slippery;)
That’d be a good product idea. Background and incidental music for fishtanks.