Chapter 6: Influencing Mood with Music and Designing Emotional Music
As a composer, you have the power to control the emotions of an audience. Visuals acquire different meanings depending on the audio used to accompany them. You can turn a boring scene where nothing happens into a powerful emotional moment simply by the selection of sound. You can make a scene happy or sad, relaxing or intense, or romantic or scary by the musical choices you make.
There are a few common emotions that come up again and again in films. In this chapter, we will touch on multiple tips and tricks to help you design musical moods for a variety of emotions.
In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:
- What is fear?
- Designing a jump scare
- Designing creepy music ...
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