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A film can work very well without any music.
Let's see two examples, and think about why the creators of these films
decided not to use scarcely any music at all.
Here is a clip from Ken Loach's 2016 film I, Daniel Blake. Loach is an English film director who has won many awards for his movies, which are usually extremely realistic films about the difficulties of day-to-day life. He often highlights the problems of our society.
In this scene, a mother and her two children, with their friend Daniel Blake, go to the food bank because she can't find work and they are poor. Although at home she is always brave and tells her children she isn't hungry so that they can eat her food, in this tragic scene she can't help revealing that she is in fact starving.
(In the whole of this film there is just a little bit of diegetic music in a couple of scenes when Blake switches on a cassette player. In this clip there is none at all).
What effect do you think the intentioned lack of music in this clip has?
Gordon M I, Daniel Blake food bank scene Licencia YouTube
And here is a clip from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). Hitchcock, one of the most famous English film directors ever, was known as "the master of suspense", and this is a very tense story about birds who mysteriously attack people in a seaside town for apparently no reason. In this film, which is one of his best, Hitchcock used no music at all except for a short piece of diegetic music when the children are singing in school.
Watch this clip and say what effect you think the intentioned lack of music in the scene has.
Movieclips The birds attack the students Licencia YouTube