June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
7h 45m
English
Music's ability to underscore emotional, thematic, and narrative information for the audience is uniquely powerful. Many of Errol Morris’ films would simply not function as they do without the scores of Philip Glass, and the engine of most great montages is, of course, a great piece of music. Yet there are films that overplay their hand with music by taking the audience to an emotional place that hasn’t been earned with the footage, or simply employ it so ubiquitously that it loses its power from overuse, and there are many great documentaries that function with little or no music at all.1 Thus, figuring out the musical logic of a documentary is a fundamental aspect of any edit. ...
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