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Film Soundtrack

My favourite film soundtrack is from the Back to the Future trilogy (dir. Robert Zemeckis), as it features lots of songs that were appropriate for the different eras, including The Power of Love, which was written for the film. Also, the opening score for the film, written by Alan Silvestri, is very iconic, and gives the audience the sense of the incredible film to come. The main section of the theme is also repeated at key points during the film, adding to the tension of it.

Romance

 romance  

  • A young boy and girl meet in a diner and they start to flirt with each other, their parents hate each other so they are forced to keep their relationship a secret.  
  • The boy asks the girl to meet him at the beach and he is devastated to discover that the girl’s parents have arranged for her to marry another man, he asks her to meet him again, later that night  and when she gets home , the girl writes a note and she goes to the beach and the lovers   it is implied that they ran away together.  
  • The girl’s mother discovers the letter and she screams.  

Influences 

  • Rome + Juliet (1996 Baz Lhurman)  
  • Breathless (1960, Jean Luc Godard)  – the film had a sad ending  
  • French New Wave  
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Slapstick comedy

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  • I will use over saturated colours to heighten the comedic tone of the film and to give it an aura of unreality.
  • The style of comedy will be exaggerated in order to heighten the laughs 

 

The comedy will take a large part of it’s inspiration from the comedy of the absurd which emphasisies unexpected juxtapositions and situations. In this case , an ordinary everyday scenario is blown wildly out of proportion by an unexpected event.

The narrative will also have some surrealist elements due to the fact that at the beginning , four women are sitting at a coffee table and they then begin to argue about who stole a diamond ring from one of the women and at the end a random jewel thief appears , with no explanation given and confesses to stealing the ring.

Sound Influences

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Guardians of the galaxy has a great soundtrack consisting of some old “feel good” songs by artists like David Bowie and The Jackson 5.
I like this soundtrack because its and action film with a more classic vibe due to the music and the fact that Quill never really left the 80’s because he was taken from earth at the age of 8.




i have been very inspired by the soundtrack in ‘The Hobbit an unexpected journey’ which was directed by Peter Jackson. I was really moved by the soundtrack in this film because of themes that run throughout the film for example there is the theme-tune of the shire and this theme is reintroduced whenever Bilbo refers back to his shire and his life before his journey. The theme-tune helps to remind the audience of the peaceful shire.


















My Favourite Film Score

My favourite film score is from Jurassic Park (1993). This was composed and conducted by John Williams. John Neufeld orchestrated most of the cues while Alexander Courage orchestrated three and Conrad Pope partially orchestrated two others. The name of this film score is Jurassic Park: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and the reason I like it is because of the way it creates a childlike sense of wonder and fits into the fantasy adventure tale.

It’s use of soaring strings and dramatic brass allows an ominous tone to represent the danger that lurks within the park. The suspense it creates conjures up a feeling of adventure and adversity which is precisely why I think it’s one of the best film scores made. It’s also  number 44 in the “Top 50 Best Film Scores of all Time”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDd6gUe8zE4

 

White balance

This is the original photo with a slightly higher shutter speed due to the outside light balance being different to instead

This is the same photo, but with the white balance as ‘daylight’. This setting has the lowest colour balance, the image is darker and can be considered more warm colours

This is the same photo with the white balance as ‘white fluorescent’. Since this setting has the highest colour temperature, the image looks much brighter and there is too much light in the image

Finally, the setting ‘cloudy’ is used to give the photo a bright tinge. This has a higher colour temperature so the image is quite bright but not to the point where it affects our ability to view the photo