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The Lean Forward Moment: Create Compelling Stories for Film, TV, and the Web
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The Lean Forward Moment: Create Compelling Stories for Film, TV, and the Web

by Norman Hollyn
December 2008
Beginner
384 pages
9h 33m
English
New Riders
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Chapter Nine. Music

Music
 

The marriage of the moving image and music is perhaps the most powerful visual communication we have. You can take almost any edited visual film sequence and change the emotion and feelings engendered by the use of music.

 
 --NORMAN JEWISON

Music is one of the most powerful tools you have in shaping an audience’s reaction to a film. Sometimes it is one of the main things that audiences remember after leaving a film. So it is incumbent on you, as a filmmaker, to realize just how the music is affecting the audience’s comprehension of your story—both plotted and emotional—so you can keep it under your control.

You have to be artistic ...

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