CHAPTER 34
USING MUSIC AND WORKING WITH A COMPOSER
WHERE TO USE MUSIC
USING MUSIC TO REVEAL HIDDEN DIMENSIONS
Documentaries, like fiction films, often use music to build tension, facilitate a transition, or enliven material that is lackluster. In fact, music can suggest what cannot be seen, and this might be a character’s interior mood, expectations, or withheld feelings. Such a character is the 82-year-old central character in Pernilla Rose Grønkjær’s lyrical and delicate The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun (Denmark, 2006). The retired parish priest Mr. Vig remarks poignantly that, during all his long life, he has never known love. He is now trying to donate his decrepit rural castle as a future monastery, and arriving to claim it is a Russian ...
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