In Monsters Inc., the scene where Mike, Sully and Boo are in the huge room of doors being chased by Randy, there is music that really impacts the scene. Because the scene is very suspenseful and dramatic, the music is very loud and fast-paced. Also, since they keep traveling to different locations through doors, the music changes depending on where they are. For example, when they go through the door that takes them to Hawaii, the music has a tropical vibe and is more relaxing. But right when they go back to the door room, the music again becomes louder and more dramatic, and this repeats throughout the scene. Music is has a big impact on animated movies. Without it, the movies would be very bland and wouldn’t have as much emotion. Music
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For this essay I will be looking at the work of Hans Zimmer to discuss how music in film engages the viewer and evokes emotion and pulls the viewer toward the film. Hans Zimmer is a German born music composer. Hans Zimmer’s love of music stems from his childhood when he learned how to play various instruments. Before Zimmer began composing music for films he was in a well-known band. The band was called The Buggles whom were famous for their song Video Killed the Radio Star. After the Buggles Zimmer played in other bands but never had another hit. As Zimmer has progressed as a film composer so has his list of nominations and awards. Zimmer has won 4 Grammy Awards and 2 Golden Globes and many more for his outstanding film scores. The reason I chose to write this essay on Zimmer was that his genres and music score are extremely versatile ranging from animations to comedy to dark thrillers. This is important to highlight as it shows Zimmer can create almost any atmosphere with his music whether it be sad or creating tension that all cause us to engage with the film. Zimmer's use of themes and introduction of different instruments allowed him to create these wonderful engaging film score. In this essay I will look at three films by Hans Zimmer these are The Holiday Rush and Rain Man.
During the making of the movie Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton chose different kinds of music and sound in different scenes to help control the feeling that the audience gets when they watch it. No matter if it’s happy, sad or scary, there is music or other sounds that help us ease into the atmosphere of it. For example, the scene where there is an assembly line making cookies, there is non-diegetic sound. The scene opens in the mansion, there is dark and ominous music playing which could make us sense mystery and feel fear. However, when the inventor holds up the heart, there is peaceful music that is meant to make our mood change from fearful to calm. Tim Burton brought the audience into the tone of what’s going on in the scene in order to create a great experience for
The dreary sounds help to capture the mood of each scene. During the opening of the movie “Edward Scissorhands” you hear creepy music in the background. This music causes the viewer
It is so easy to get lost in the spectacular stunts and visual effects of movies like the Star Wars films and “Jurassic Park” and its sequel “Jurassic World.” The acting is generally good as well since studios don't want to blow it in that area by recruiting inexperienced talent for a movie that they are spending a ton of money on in other areas. A big aspect of movies that can make or break them is movie music. This takes the form of the opening theme song and the soundtrack throughout the movie.
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
In The Important Places filmmaker choose awesome music because it gives viewer to feel in the best mood while watching. Similarly, Contributing Writer for Film Rejects, Allison, says “Music is an important part of any film, but with documentaries, the music becomes all the more important because it is reflecting real world issues and not just a works of fiction.” I agree with Allison, because music is the one media to draw viewers’ feeling, which touches the soul as well as capable of bonding people together from different background, and cultural heritage. This make music is key in the filmmaker, specially documentaries film to draw millions of people
Just like films music can do much more for people than to just provide mind numbing entertainment. With the right minds, music and be used to tell the whole story of the film in just a matter of minutes and with minimum dialog. Throughout a good portion the animated film Wall-E, there appears to be minimal dialog and speaking. Instead, sound effects and music is used to communicate to the viewers and tell them exactly what is going on. Throughout the whole film, Director Andrew Stanton uses music from classical films to not only set the mood for certain scenes, but also to add a deeper meaning to an adventurous and romantic story of a little robot named Wall-E.
The novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, and the song Eleanor Rigby, by The Beatles, have characters that are very similar. For example, no one will come near the creature that Frankenstein made, just like Father McKenzie’s sermons in Eleanor Rigby. Just like Eleanor Rigby, no one will attend the creature’s funeral, which exemplifies their loneliness. The characters from each novel and song share common societal issues such as being forgotten and being alone.
Tim Burton used music to create mood and tone. In Edward Scissorhands, he uses cheerful music in the opening scene to make it seem that the neighborhood is “perfect”. Then all of a sudden, it changes to dark, eerie sounds as Peg glances up at Edward’s dark castle that he lived in for many years, alone. To me, I feel that Peg was too scared to go anywhere near the castle and she may have felt a little sorrow for Edward. Another example is when the music
Since the earliest days of human civilization music has been a key tool for communication of stories which carried emotions through them. If we think back to our youngest years of life music has surrounded us whether it was from our parents singing us lullabies or from some sort of toy that played music we can say that musical melodies have helped shape or lives one way or another. Once we start growing up and figuring out who we are our musical preferences change; some people like classical and some like punk. We start to befriend people who like the same music as us and eventually we may attend a musical event. Our lives somewhat revolve around the music that we listen to.
Music plays a major role in the development of the different magical beings. Music plays a major way in my life to. Like it does in the dwarves lives also. In The Hobbit , there are the different song sang by the dwarves, elves, and the goblins. They all have a different tone, content, and structure.
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...
For example, in the movie The Lion king, the song “The Circle of Life”, the instruments used in the song are a piano, vocals, a small woodwind, and percussion. The music starts with very powerful vocals which grab your attention and pull it towards the screen and what is about to happen. The vocals then turn to harmonies from a choir. The music is primarily background offscreen. This means that it consists of sound effects, music, or vocals that originate from the world of the story. For examples, in the movie The Lion King, the animals talk. In real life, animals do not talk. Also in the scene where they sing “Hakuna Matata”, the music in the movie tells what is happening through the lives of the characters, but in the real life all we see is people talking and screaming but not the music expressing our feelings, like The Lion King. Another scene is where the animals sing “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”. The song is telling their love story in through the music but in real life we tell our love story by
Also, music plays an important role in culture by being entertaining. Let's face it; people listen to music because it's exciting! It can affect a person's thoughts and feelings towards a particular subject, but not ultimately change their mind, which is what makes it so pleasurable. What else would put life in the world if music didn't? Music provides background music for almost everything in a person's everyday life. Try to imagine what television would be like without music. There would be no catchy jingles to stupid commercials that would end up getting stuck in your head for days and no theme songs to your favorite shows. Even a movie without sound would make you not want to watch it. Whether you think so or not, a soundtrack to a movie makes a person emote to the screenplay more- it makes you feel what the actors are feeling. That is what makes it so entertaining! If there were no songs to a movie, you might as well just not watch it at all. And what about a cell phone? How would you know when to pick up your phone if you didn't hear it ring your favorite song? Hearing that ring tone on a phone provides a small source of entertainment, but also serves a very important purpose.