This week we took the importance of music a step further. Although, it was not directly linked to our evocative objects, the task was to think of two contrasting songs and discuss your choice of songs to the rest of the class. We then created a game in the class ‘ delve or share’. The class listened to my choice of songs and then they had to delve and think of why I chose the songs I did. If we did not want the class to delve we could share the information to them.
My choice of songs was a song I liked and a song I disliked. I chose ‘Believe’ by Cher and ‘A little Respect’ by Erasure. My favourite song is ‘Believe’ so that is why I chose that song, it is also a song that I want played at my funeral so has some positive and negative emotions. ‘A little respect’ is a song I have never enjoyed listening to, mainly as it reminds me of a certain person who is no longer part of my life.
I enjoyed listening to my peers choice of songs, as it was interesting to see their body language change when listening to their contrasting songs. Most of the class, when listening to a song they disliked they became tense and wanted the song off quickly in comparison to a song they liked most of the class seemed to justify or apologise for their song choice.
The next part of the module consisted of watching videos relating to why music is important in movies and tv programmes. The part I found the most interesting was that it is not the scene that causes emotions of sadness, happiness or fear it is the music choice that helps create the desired emotion. Pixar are extremely good at this and the video below explains how well they do this.
We were then asked to create our own movie soundtrack – to change the feeling of the scene. Below are the two soundtracks I chose to show how music can change a scene of a movie.