CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Leitmotif, Max Steiner, Cinematic Techniques

• School: UTSG
• Department: Cinema Studies
• Course: CIN105Y1
• Professor: Benjamin Wright

Document Summary

Codes and convention of cinema as film makers need certain things so they were invented. How filmmakers are innovating, changing, breaking certain rules. Film music: develop into a basic language, a language that directors that directors and composers can use to talk to each other and how music touches the audience, affect our perception visually on screen. Seven basic principles of classical film music: govern the use and function of music over the last 75 years. Refers to transparency of classic narrative (invisibility and inaudibility) We are simply watching a story coming to life. We are not realizing they are recorded during another time. Different between this and inability: musi(cid:272) should (cid:271)e i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le (cid:894)do(cid:374)"t see the sou(cid:396)(cid:272)e(cid:895), the (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396) the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es do(cid:374)"t hea(cid:396) it (cid:894)i(cid:374)audi(cid:271)ilit(cid:455)(cid:895) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)e should(cid:374)"t hea(cid:396) the (cid:373)usi(cid:272) eithe(cid:396) (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t hea(cid:396) the (cid:373)usi(cid:272) sepa(cid:396)ate f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the i(cid:373)age (cid:271)ut the(cid:455) (cid:271)le(cid:374)d togethe(cid:396) Comes in at specific time to cue us of something important on screen.