Blog #22

Music is an essential part of any film, whether it be diegetic or non-diegetic. Diegetic music is music in a film that the characters can actually hear. Non-diegetic is only heard by the audience, and is not playing in the actual scene. For our film, we are going to play non-diegetic music. The music will be very quiet and calm in the beginning of the film, and slowly escalate as the film twists to more abusive and dark scenes. The music will reach its full height when Caroline is aggressively painting, to match the dramatics of the scene. The music will be classical, which has a very serious and momentous connotation. I researched music scenes that utilized classical music in the same way, and found an article featuring a few examples. One example that stood out to me was Space Odyssey’s opening scene. When the music reaches its peak, it is when the chimp has a break through, an idea has struck. The classical music was used to “bring a seriousness and transcendence to the visuals,” which is exactly what the classical music does during our clip of Caroline painting aggressively. The slow build up of the intensity of the music also adds to the dramatics of the scene.