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Hear the Movie, See the Sound (Part Four)

LM
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

“Film music is essentially dramatic music, not descriptive music. Music adds one more emotional plane to an attack which is already being made on the visual sense.” Tony Thomas 

In this series, we are examining different ways in which the auditory signal has delivered success to Hollywood, where it 

  • introduces the film
  • defines time and place 
  • identifies and defines characters
  • camouflages silence
  • creates atmosphere
  • elicits emotion 

So far we have discovere

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