How Film Scores Play With Our Emotions Notes

 HOW FILM SCORES PLAY WITH OUR EMOTIONS

• Different film scores can completely alter the mood of a scene

• A film score is written specifically for what is happening on the screen

• A soundtrack contains songs independent of the film itself, which were not made from purpose for the film

• Most films have both a score and a soundtrack

• Depending on music the scene can become triumphant, creepy, or comical

• The silent era was when the there was no music/sound at all then accompanied by a pianist, fills in silence and feel the emotions necessary in that film

• Hero’s get uplifting anthems

• Chase scenes have a fast tempo

• Sad scenes are slow and sonder

• The anticipation of danger makes each scene more scary

• When the audience knows and the characters don’t it adds suspense

• The camera speeds up so does the camera and we feel terror

• Film scores stay in the background and only provide subtle ques to the audience

5 ways film scores are used

• 1st: create a time and place (western)

• 2nd: music can underline psychological refinements; what’s happening

• 3rd: build a sense of continuity/relation, if the music between shots or scenes is the same, we relate them to each other (montages, flashbacks)

• 4th: give a sense of finality;this usually happens at the end of a film or after a great triumph, 

• 5th: sometimes music is just there to fill the silence, hardest score to do bc the audience shouldn’t notice it

• Film scores enhance the emotion of the scene

• Hearing silence can be overwhelming and omnimous 

• The psychology of music is the most important to enhancing a film