When thinking of the perfect scene in your head, it is often hard to find the correct music to go along with that scene. The music must reflect the image perfectly or it just feels like it’s missing something. I struggle with this exact problem and sometimes I overcome it but usually I just throw in a track that I don’t really like. Robin Hoffman is an expert with sound and has studied it for many years. He explains the importance of having the right type of music in your films.
First of all, the music in your video will create the atmosphere. This will set up the whole film for you and frankly establish the mood of it too. This can be used in horror movies when they have the scary sounds in the beginning or in love movies when the romantic song is bringing everyone to tears. Also, by creating the atmosphere, you also begin to develop the relationships between the people. The main characters love interest will be met with a bunch of angels bellowing while the bad guy in the film with be greeted with loud piano noises and violin screeches. Another big part of music is that it can establish the time and period references by the type and style they use. Old timely music can be used or modern hip-hop can also be shown to explain when it is. Many shows use this now a days during the first episode or in time travel experiences in big movies because it can be very boring if you are given a glimpse back in time and there is no past music to reflect that. Finally, music can give a sense of unease when you create contradiction. This is usually done when directors have the wrong type of music in the wrong type of situations. Like having children’s music in a horror film will creep people out even more. This just comes to show you the power of music and how it can take an ordinary scene or film and make it extraordinary and exceptional because “the soundtrack was just too good.” http://www.robin-hoffmann.com/tutorials/guide-to-working-with-a-film-composer/12-what-is-the-function-of-film-music/
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