MUSCLG 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rko Pictures, Studio System, Diegesis
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In the golden age of the studio system. Industrial model where the film is put together by an entire team the producer assembles the team. The major studios: the big five must know! United artists studio formed by artists, to give them more control over their own work as they have to make a certain number of films if they were signed. Music makes visual discontinuity bearable they were now experiencing if they were trying to synchronize music with the image (mickey mousing) Counter parting parallel in some places, not parallel in the rest. Percussion instruments drum beats percussive sounds forms non-diegetic sounds, it is setting the scene. Music distracts from the visual screaming distracts from the apparatus they don"t want you to see how it is working. Narrative cueing: referential/narrative: music gives referential and narrative cues, eg: indicating point of view, supplying formal demarcations and establishing setting and characters, connotative: music interprets and illustrates narrative events.
