Week 12

To summarize this course I want to do a analyzes on a clip from ‘There will be blood’ by using different terms and theory’s we’ve learnt throughout the semester. The clip, I think, is not only aesthetically beautiful but is a very powerful scene which I have gone back to watch many times during this…

Week 11

When it comes to soundtrack, as in the album fans would buy from a movie, I have been thinking of why this is so popular. It is not that it’s odd to buy a soundtrack album, I just think there’s something else behind it. In a research article by Susann Eschrich, Thomas F Münte and Eckart…

Week 10

By using a certain kind of music, it can place you in a certain physical space. When a movie want to place a viewer in a certain country, the sound designers and music composers often use very stereotypical musical choice. This, I would argue, applies more to huge movies with large budgets, where it is…

Week 9

As we watched dance movies in class I was inspired to go and see what more I could find. I have never really looked at contemporary dance videos before, certainly not with the intent to analyze the sound in them. But what I discovered was that most movies had the music track overlaying the images…

Week 8

For anything to have an effect there must be contrast. The same applies to sound. If you have a really intense scene with music, sound design and a lot of action you’re bound to have some silence to enhance those sounds. The longer you’re exposed to loud sounds, the more you get use to it…

week 7

Materializing and de-materialzing sound can be done in so many different ways. A film score can materialize different aspects of the movie for instance. Miguel Mera investigates this subject in the article ‘Materialising film music’. He gives the example of how the oil in the movie ‘There will be blood’ is being materialised through the…

week 6

What makes a sound comic is often that it is exaggerated and “not realistic”. My encounter with such sounds is often through cartoons, and the most “typical” comic sounds that I first think of often belongs in old school cartoons. In this version of The red hood from 1943 comic sounds is used to make the…

week 5

In movies silence can be used for many different reasons. It can be used in the middle of intense scenes to enhance the following sequence, to give way to more space to later be able to bring it back up again and give it more punch. It can be used to excentuate the scene, or…

Week 4

Soundtracks in movie is not only decorative or meant to create emotional enhanced responses but can be used in various different ways. One of them is to tie a certain musical theme to a place or character. A very famous example of this is the ‘Darth Vader-theme’ in Star wars. An example where this is…

Week 3

I have noticed that I am starting to become more aware of sound, especially watching movies and tv-shows. Especially the effect of the music, and how it´s altering the way I feel about a scene. I found this video on Youtube which demonstrates the manipulation of music which is exactly one of those things I´ve…