• How does music seduce the audience and change the meaning of a film?
Music in film helps forcing attention, setting a tone/mood, and evoking particular feelings such as suspense or happiness towards a specific scene. It also helps to enforce the themes and helps to portray a better image in the viewer’s head.
• What role does sound play in remembering a picture? Give an example from the film or from your own memory.
Unique sounds help to identify a picture, a scene, etc. Sounds that are heard in a movie and only in that movie, makes the audience reference immediately every time that particular sound is played. A good example is the whistle of Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) from the movie Kill Bill vol 1 and 2, whenever that sound is played scenes such as her attempted murder of The Bride (Uma Thurman) pops out in whoever saw that movie.
• What material were composers given in order to compose the score? How did this process take place?
Composers were given several things in order to create what directors where looking for. They got specific scenes in which they have to create certain feelings, they also got orchestra musicians, a time indicator for the film, etc.
• How did the Music Editor “spot” the picture? What is the difference between a ’streamer’ and a ‘punch’ and how did they help the conductor to create the musical score?
The music editor “spotted” the picture by punching a hole on the film and then marking it with a white X. The punches are used when a new key has to begin with a scene, and the streamer is used to make sure the tempo of the piece in the film is synchronized.
