Establishing a Theme in a Feature Film

Sideways A wonderful video on how YouTube's channel "Pixar makes you cry with music"

In the first part, he discusses the power of using contrast to cause feelings (eg playing sweet happy music in sad scenes). But there is an idea, I found that the end of the video is filled with insight in particular. First of all, please watch the video.

When he talked about Big Hero 6's scene, he said: "In contrast to the situation in the scene, I want to get an established music theme in stark contrast." He mainly focuses on the concept of video contrast The theme idea focused on is very important. He pointed out that the theme may be introduced in a harmless way from some scenes in front of the movie.

This is a very important concept when approaching the positioning process of feature films. Rather than focusing on the scores of the scenes for each scene (such as "Is this scene effective? Do you need help with music?"), Fully understand the impact of the initial scene on subsequent scenes need to do it.

In the early days of the movie, there may be scenes that do not require music. Performance is strong, the emotions and intentions of the scene are very clear, so you do not need to score. But this video helps us remind that music is about not just about supporting time, but about giving meaning and outline to the entire story.

It's just "We should have music here, it should be an XYZ theme" It's not just "It's also" to build the theme where the music of this scene needs to be very powerful Can you do it? " This scarcely is noticed as this may allow you to get some scenes that you may ignore early in the movie or even neutral. But that key is at his point of view, you bring the theme and its relevance to the audience

Scoring is also an important aspect of any feature film, especially when trying to create emotions in specific emotions and stories. Scoring can be added to the linear and continuous movie tone in established themes and production styles and performance styles, dynamically changed to support on-screen movement, improve the quality of the story It helps. So, the director of Luke (All in the Valley) wrote a short paragraph in three music tips written and made for All in the Valley score, then asked if they wanted ideas on their direction It was.

John Williams won the monopoly 2 from the first return. The theme of this movie is the theme song "Somewhere in My Memory" of the first movie, but also includes its own theme "Christmas Star". The two soundtrack albums of this movie were released on November 20, 1992, one with Williams' score and the other in a movie of contemporary Christmas songs. Ten years later, a two-piece Deluxe soundtrack soundtrack was released. Home Alone 2: New in New York - The original score is the 1992 soundtrack by John Williams, he is also the first song in the series. Most of the soundtrack is a repetition of the original movie material, but there are some new famous themes such as "Christmas Star" and "Plaza Hotel and Duncan's toy shop". After all, the soundtrack lost the printout.