Introduction
In movie industry terminology usage, soundtrack is a contraction of "sound track" and is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production."If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema." - Serge Daney
In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives." - John Berger
What is Soundtrack?- it can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game
- it was commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.
Original of the Soundtrack
- it came into public in the early 1950s
- first conceived by movie companies as a promotional gimmick for new films
- it was commercially available recordings were labeled
- it advertised as "original motion picture soundtrack."
- such recordings are made from a film's music track, because they usually consist of the isolated music from a film
Types of Soundtrack
- Musical film soundtracks which concentrate primarily on the songs
- Film scores which showcase the background music from non-musicals
- Albums of pop songs heard in whole or part in the background of non-musicals
- Video game soundtracks are often released after a game's release, usually consisting of the background music from the game's levels, menus, title screens, promo material (such as entire songs that only segments of which were used in the game), cut-screens and occasionally sound-effects used in the game.
- Albums of pop songs heard in whole or part in the background of musicals
Key Quotes:
1. "Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls." – Ingmar Bergman
2. "Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms." - Alfred Hitchcock
3. "Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading." – Igor Stravinsky
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_definition_of_cinema4. Recorded musical accompaniments to silent film were generally felt to be inferior to the attractiveness of live music, which had long been a vital part of the cinemagoing experiences.
The Hollywood Film Music Reader, Mervyn Cooke
5. The sounds of recording by the variable density method are as follows – microphone, which converts the sound vibrations into a system of electric currents.
The Hollywood Film Music Reader, Mervyn Cooke
Samuel Beam
- he was born on July 26, 1974
- his better known by his stage and recording name Iron & Wine
- he was an American singer-songwriter
- he occasionally tours with a full band
- the name Iron & Wine is taken from a dietary supplement named "Beef Iron & Wine" that he found in a general store while shooting a film.
Case study: Flightless bird, American Mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euHGXlYrLNk
"Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
- it was created by Iron & Wine and aroused further attention of audiences at that time
- it was chosen for inclusion in the movie by star Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella Swan
- the soundtrack won a 2009 American Music Award for Favorite Soundtrack.
Benefits of Soundtrack
l To arouse further attention of the viewers
l "Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face." So that soundtrack as a best way for movie makers to further arouses audience’s attention in the spectacle.
l To help audiences engaging more and enjoy more in the screen.
l To remind audiences back to their own memories.
References:
2. Spectacular Narratives, Geoff King, I.B.Tauris Publishers, 2000
3. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_definition_of_cinema
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack
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