FILM MUSIC

 

TOUCHING THE VOID:- The musical score in this scene from Touching the void reinforce the mood of the character from struggling to hope and then sudden relieve that was over-shadow when the character realised that, this is just the beginning of his predicament. the building of music score from lower temple connote struggling of the character while climbing up the cave but when he look up and saw rays of light the music slow down to symbolises hope before building up in the tempo of musical score again and then reach climax when the character got out. The climax on the music with orchestra effects connote relieve and symbolises mountain scenery. The mood of the is character suddenly change with the musical score with low temple when he realised the this is just the beginning of his predicament. The low musical tempo express the character thoughts and emotions.

GLOSSARY

SOUND is vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's ear .In television and film production, sound is very important element of a good production. this sound has to be mixed very carefully to ensure that important sounds are emphasised and that the correct atmosphere for a sequence is maintained. some examples of sound elements is television and film is explain below:-

Diegetic sound:- Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source in implied to present by the action of the film, e.g

*Voices of characters
*Sound made by objects in the story
*Music represented as coming from instruments in the story space.

Non-diegetic sound:- Sound in film that you can only ear but the source is to visible. an example in below:-

                                         


Ambient:-  Ambient music are genre of instrumental music that focuses on sound pattern more than melodic and its used to create certain atmosphere or state of mind. an example below

SFX:- This are artificially created or enhance sound. this is done by special software or instruments to emphasize artistic contents or other content in film and television.

 Synchronous are those sounds which synchronized the picture. for example man playing saxophone and the action or movement sync with the picture. 

 Asynchronous sound effects on the other hand does not synchronize with the picture.for example sounds added to create emotional nuance as the lovers embraces in a film.

Theme music:- This is the music that introduces, develops throughout and ends the film. it often indicates the 'personality' and mode of address of the movie. characters can have their own theme music-this is used to indicate their presence or 'emotional journey'. 

                                                            

Score music:- Used to create atmosphere, to link shots or sequences, to help create the narrative or to offer information about character. for example:-

                                                         
Here are some list what music score does in film:-
 1. Building sense of continuity                                                             
 2. Creates more convincing atmosphere of space and time
 3. Serve as background filler
 4. pinpointing psychological  refinement like unspoken word the character.
 5. emphasize the theatrical build-up of a scene and rounding it off with a sense of finality.




Genre:-  In film theory genre refer to the way the film are categorise based on the similarity elements the story is constructed on. 

Types of genre in film and television:- 
*Science fiction and fantasy
*Westerns
*Horror
*Musicals
*Documentary
*Romances
*Family
*Sports
*Biopics
*Music documentary
*Bollywood
*War films
*Drama
*Crime
*Documentary
*Action and adventure
*Animation

Mood:- Mood is emotional tone of the film, where a character show emotion like crying, angry, celebrating etc.

Tone:- Tone is how film make you feel and how it achieves that effect on yo. Camera work, lighting. editing, actor, music or sounds, colour scheme contribute to the tone of the film.

Voice-over:- Off-screen voice of a character that narrate or informs the external audience about the film. sometime it can be misleading but works effectively sometime on documentary.

Contrapuntal:- Contrapuntal sound occur when the visual and sound are in contrast with one another.

Silence:- very rarely complete silence in film and television to create an effect that will makes the audience react.

Selective sound:-


Sound bridges:- This is used in transitions between sequences.


                                                      

  SOUND OF SHELOCK HOLMES OPENING:-

• Theme music

• Sound from horse carriage

• Foot-steps of man running

• Guns corking

• sound from the horse bell

• Sound from the crow

• horse neighing

• Sound from burning fire

• Sound from broken classes

• Door opening 

Theme music in this scene indicates suspense from the beginning with piano and pulse for few seconds using horse carriage sounds as the bridge sounds before the theme music started all over again with violin on low tempo then piano and the drums. the music started to build up with high tempo creating intense and action before the started fading into a lower tempo.

The theme music is non-diegetic because you can only hear the sound but  you can't see it in this particular scene.

Sound from the horse carriage was used as a bridges but is also a diegetic sound because we can see the horse carriage and at the same time, we can hear the sounds. 

Foot-steps from the man running is diegetic, because the audience can see the man running and at the same time hear his foot-steps.

Horses neighing,sound of the horse-shoe,quacking of the crow,sounds from burning fire,sounds from horse's bells,doors opening are all diegetic sound. The because the audience can relate both sounds with the pictures.

Sounds from broken glasses is non-diegetic because the audience can only hear it but can't see the picture of broken glasses.