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Chapter 39 Soundtrack (2)

Most of the movies we see today are narrative movies, the lens language is relatively objective narrative, and the music language is relatively subjective narrative.

In most commercial movies, in order to allow the audience to understand and enter the movie situation faster, soundtracks are usually used.

Not only the soundtrack is used to assist the picture, but the picture is often edited to match the music, sometimes it can be just blank and lyrical, and more often the soundtrack can give the picture and the storyline a sense of rhythm.

When the music and the picture do not fit well, the emotional and rational expression of the movie will lose balance, and the rhythm of the movie will also go wrong, making it appear slow or flustered.

Film music is divided into subjective music and objective music. Objective music usually refers to the natural background music in the film scene or the atmosphere rendering music created by the composer for the film scene. It does not contain strong personal emotions, and is more common in action movies or documentary movies.

Subjective music refers to the soundtrack created from the perspective of the audience (God's perspective) or the subjective perspective of the characters in the play. It only needs to express the inner emotions of a certain perspective, and sometimes it can even be the opposite of the picture presented in the camera. When a movie requires emotional expression from a subjective perspective, subjective soundtracks are usually used to achieve the greatest resonance between the emotions of the characters in this perspective and the emotions of the audience, so that the audience can feel the same as the characters in the play.

For example, when the lover of the protagonist of the movie marries someone else, using happy wedding music is an objective soundtrack, and using sad emotional music is a subjective soundtrack.

Film directors mobilize the audience's emotions through the deployment and use of subjective and objective soundtracks.

In addition, the quality of the music usually shows the taste of the director. For example, directors who are more sophisticated usually like classical symphony, those with strange tastes like experimental music or music with strong regional styles, and directors of action movies usually like rock music. Or a mixed electronic symphony. Xiaoqing directors usually like jazz and folk songs, while more down-to-earth directors prefer pop music that is easier to understand.The use of such music directly affects the style and language of the film.

There are usually only two ways to choose music for movies, choose ready-made songs or instrumental music, or ask composers to create soundtracks for movies or adapt existing works.The music for most films is a mix of existing music and compositions created for the film by composers.

Movie soundtracks come in a wide variety of genres and styles.It's hard to generalize.There are not only works similar to the complex and exquisite classical techniques created by John Williams for Star Wars, but also the popular piano works played by Joe Hisaishi in Kikujiro's Summer, and Hans Zimmer in Inception. There are almost only electronic sounds and rhythm blocks without any recognizable melody.

Because the subjective emotional characteristics of the melody are very obvious, in today's movies, except when it needs to mobilize the audience's emotions, the melody part in the soundtrack is much weaker than most music works. In other words, contemporary movies don't need so much melody to support.

However, the subjective emotions in the melody sometimes cause some damage to the foreshadowing of the movie scene, and the audience will involuntarily follow the melody instead of following the narrative of the camera, which sometimes causes certain difficulties for the director in controlling the story.

When the melody is overemphasized, it can sometimes even make a film look more like a music video, which is unacceptable for most directors, who prefer to use music to serve film rather than image Go serve the music.

Usually, it is very, very difficult to control a piece of excellent music with images. When the soundtrack is a famous pop song or classical music, the director needs to work very hard to break through the audience's perception of some famous music pieces. stereotype.

In comparison, it is more feasible to weaken the melody part in music works.Experienced film composers are also very aware of this point. When they create soundtracks, they can make a good foreshadowing for the film scene through only short musical motives and rhythms without appearing overwhelming.

When the personal emotions of the subjective characters need to be expressed to the audience, one or several strong melodies will be used to match the expression of this emotion.

Although this precise music creation method has been recognized by most film directors and audiences, it does not mean that the soundtrack made for the film is not audible.

Just like the single melody with loose rhythm and lack of harmony in some folk music, convincing works can sometimes be created only by relying on the development of rhythm and harmony. It has formed a trend and has become quite popular.

And Pei Yang's current task is to get the basic soundtrack and the theme song of the movie.

He had already prepared a few songs for this movie, and even played and sang them for Xia Yike in the school's piano room.

His task for the past two days is to find a few professional musicians to produce the music in a professional shed.By the way, find a few "song kings" to sing these songs.

What?You ask why not let Pei Yang sing by himself?

Don’t be ridiculous bro, if you’ve ever been in a studio, you wouldn’t ask this kind of question. There is no sound card for you to use in the recording studio, and this alone will abolish a lot of “singers”.

What's more, in the recording studio, even slight breathing sounds will be clearly recorded, and this kind of breath control is difficult for non-professional singers to control.

You can see that so many entertainments are written and sung by themselves. It’s all a joke. It’s normal for you to write a few songs because you like listening to songs and can memorize most of the lyrics.

But you, a layman who doesn't study music but film, can go directly to record songs, how outrageous it is.It's like you are a code farmer who wants to participate in the lol professional league and play well.It's just outrageous. His mother opened the door for Outrageous, and Outrageous got home.

In this regard, Pei Yang decisively chose to borrow his strength and went directly to Sister Luo Sisi, um, there is something wrong with my sister, nothing wrong with my aunt, it is very true.

As a well-known person in the industry, Luo Sisi was still a second-generation person, so she had nothing to say in her network, so she directly introduced to Pei Yang a few newcomers with excellent voice skills.

Well, why a newcomer?

Simple, because it's cheap.

If the [-] pot and the [-] pot can be steamed, the effect is not the same, but the difference is not too much, which one would you choose?
Obviously, most normal people will choose the cheap one.And Pei Yang, he is a normal person.

　It is really important to follow up, really, really, Mengxin begs to follow up.

　　Everyone, even if you keep a book, you’d better open the latest chapter and stay for a while, otherwise the book will die easily. X﹏X
　　
　
(End of this chapter)