Music, Film, and Cartoon

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Music, Film, and Cartoon “Music and art are similar concepts as they are both trying to explain and express ideas through abstract mediums” (Gilbert, 2007). The similarities of these two are that they are creative and can be understood in many different ways. Almost all arts forms are influenced by music in many different ways. Film is one of the arts forms that are influenced by music. Music makes a film, a movie as well as an animated cartoon more interesting by bring out audiences’ emotion, introducing and setting a tone of a movie, dictating characters’ action, and misleading audiences. It expresses characters’ feelings, actions, and a film’s tensions (King, n.d., Watkins, 2013, and A Brief Discourse, 2008). Due to the fact that music raises human emotion, it is that music plays an important role in film (Picardi, 2013). Music makes a film more significant. It provides the audiences with the connection of emotion, character, and situation. As Johnny Depp said, “music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t” (as cited in Picardi, 2013). For example, a scene of a couple, who have just been married, exiting the church uses a love song to show the feeling of the characters at that moment. Without the appropriate music in appropriate scene, the emotion of the audiences is “almost completely eliminated” (Bell, 2010). As Picardi (2013) stated: Music does indeed touch us emotionally, that is most likely why Sarah Mclachlan chose a morose song to accompany her animal cruelty video. The same concept applied in commercials is valid in film. Without the proper scoring and music, a Grammy Winning film can be changed drastically only by a different song choice. For example if these scenes in Anna Karenina, with Anna & Vronksy is played with Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor Swift the message would remain relatively true to the intention of Joe Wright, however,
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