Music in Films and Media

In these movies, you can learn facts about important topics

• Documentaries

• Opera

The background music can create contrast or highlight something in the scene or be a 'ta-daa..' moment or involve the use of tension in the music is one of the function of background music as ______

• mood and atmosphere

• credit

• dramatic effect

• sense of locale

The movies that include music and dance are

• Musical

• Silent movie

The background music can give a sense of the time or place in which the film or a particular scene is set and involve music from a particular time period, genre or culture is the function the background music as _______

• Dramatic Effect

• Credit

• Mood and Atmosphere

• Sense of locale

The phrase or piece of music that represents a particular object, idea, place, or character and often recurs throughout the film is _________

• Soundtrack

• Leitmotif

• Repetition

• Pop Songs

How to Create Tension Music in the movie?

• making the tempo:allegro (like a racing heartbeat)

• slow and soft music

• extreme dynamics (such as pp-ff) which suddenly change

• minor or atonal tonality

• repetitive, short, snappy phrases

Background music is also known as_______

• Leitmotif

• Backsound

• Diegetic Music

• Underscoring

Why is the music in films important?

What does tonality mean in music? Please give an example!

What does tempo mean?