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How music affects a scene

Can a scene have different meanings just because of the music?

Now we are getting to a really interesting part of music in the cinema. It is related to how music affects a film, to how it creates a mood or an atmosphere (one of the functions we looked at before), or even if it can decide what we think about a character.

Do you think a scene can have different meanings

just because of the music?

Can the same scene change, and have a different mood or atmosphere,

if we give it different music? 

Let's have a quick vote in class before moving on.

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- Hands up who thinks music can change the meaning of a scene (count the votes).

-Hands up who thinks it is impossible for the same scene to have a different meaning if you change the music (count the votes). 

Which opinion won? And by how many votes?

Reflection

AN EXTRA EXPLANATION BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO: 

When you watch this video, take into account that some of the words in the subtitles are wrong,

which means that sometimes the text doesn't make sense. 

Why is this? It's because the subtitles were made using speech-to-text software: a technology that permits computers to recognise the words being spoken on the video and put them into written text automatically. Although this is a very fast way of creating subtitles, it means that sometimes there are mistakes because computers don't understand the meaning of what people are saying, they just capture the sounds. And when two words sound very similar, sometimes they write the wrong one.

Computers aren't as clever as humans, yet!

Watch the video

OK, so now we are ready to watch this video. Don't worry if you can't understand everything that the presenter is saying, because: 

a) The important thing is to watch and listen to the music in the different scenes, and...

b) If you need EXTRA HELP, there is a summary of the most important ideas of the video underneath. Just click on the "Show Feedback " button.

Jack Pierce How music affects film Licencia YouTube

After watching and understanding the video, shall we repeat that vote that we did at the beginning of the page? What do you think the result will be??!