6 Ways Music Can Enhance A Film
With WE ARE GOLDEN, Music Supervisor for The Pirate Queen
WE ARE GOLDEN is a Composer Management and Music Supervision Agency working across all genres of Film, TV and Entertainment. With music being the universal language, here they give six ways that music can enhance a film.
1. Setting
Music can create a setting, mood, atmosphere, time period, specific country or place in a much shorter time than words and pictures can. As well as visual cues that we are seeing on screen (costumes, location etc), music also functions as a piece of information to inform the viewer about the narrative.
2. Characters
Music has the ability to express multiple emotional characteristics simultaneously, much like our personal lives and much like characters in a story. Music can bring additional depth and dimensions to characters and tell the audience about their personality, state of mind and thoughts in a way that words and pictures may not. This can then help viewers have a stronger sense of connection and empathy with those characters.
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3. Storytelling
Music can inform the audience of any plot anticipations and/or major turning points in the story without the need for the script/dialogue explicitly saying this.
4. Continuity
Music can provide continuity and works very well to glue scenes together, softening harsh scene changes. Narratives with lots of jumps in time or place can be smoothed together with a film score that has an overarching motif unifying the film.
5. Viewer Retention
A viewer's retention of a film can be largely governed by the type of music used as our subconscious stores what we’ve heard for a long time afterwards. People often associate scenes in their favourite movies with the music that accompanies them so the recall ability becomes even better with a great soundtrack.
6. Escapism
Music can enhance a viewer's feeling of escapism while watching a film. Films set in magical worlds are possible largely because music helps us become immersed with those unrealities, therefore absorbing and engaging your viewers into the story.
WE ARE GOLDEN
WE ARE GOLDEN is a Composer Management and Music Supervision Agency. They provide a 360 Music Supervision Service that provides unparalleled support through the entire creative process from composer curation to rights collection for production companies and creatives. Their services include Composer Representation, Creative Music Supervision, Commissioned Music, Production Music Label Creation & Management.