Cinematic storytelling: Music
The text about the use of music in film describes how music can be used to set the theme of a film, the tone, the mood, and even establish the viewers in the setting and time period. The lyrics of the music used can be just as important as the mood or feeling of the music. Writers should be careful when choosing music to theme a scene or a film, as the right to some songs can be expensive or unattainable, and you can risk copy write infringement.
The text references the use of music in Shawshank Redemption, in which red plays a vinyl record over the prison's loudspeakers, showing an important change in character. It represents his triumph over the rules of the prison, and the hope of the world that exists outside. By playing it over the speakers he defies the prison rules and shares his victory with the rest of the inmates.
I wanted to point out another movie, Watchmen, which uses iconic music from the 60's and 70's to set the time period of an alternate universe that was never able to work its way out of the cold war. The music, like "All Along the Watchtower" and "The Times They Are A-Changing", give the feeling of the unrest during the Vietnam war, but the environment is different, painting the grim unknowing of the cold war.
In the following scene, the combination of song and montage show the audience the passing of time, the changing of an era, and the strange twists that came along with it, all as a form of exposition for the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZj43rtoEp4
The text references the use of music in Shawshank Redemption, in which red plays a vinyl record over the prison's loudspeakers, showing an important change in character. It represents his triumph over the rules of the prison, and the hope of the world that exists outside. By playing it over the speakers he defies the prison rules and shares his victory with the rest of the inmates.
I wanted to point out another movie, Watchmen, which uses iconic music from the 60's and 70's to set the time period of an alternate universe that was never able to work its way out of the cold war. The music, like "All Along the Watchtower" and "The Times They Are A-Changing", give the feeling of the unrest during the Vietnam war, but the environment is different, painting the grim unknowing of the cold war.
In the following scene, the combination of song and montage show the audience the passing of time, the changing of an era, and the strange twists that came along with it, all as a form of exposition for the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZj43rtoEp4
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