Fuck-Up #61
“We Can’t Afford Good Music”
How to get music cheap, but not cheap sounding
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”3
—Leo Tolstoy
The Fuck-Up…
Audiences will not accept flashing signs on the screen telling them to “cry here,” “laugh now,” or “get excited.” However, they will absolutely accept your music’s ability to give these very cues.
We all know movies are fiction and we’re being lied to; we simply want to be lied to convincingly— without too much attention being drawn to the act of the lying. Score is one of your best tools for stirring emotion without the audience becoming consciously aware they are being manipulated. Good music makes people feel what you want them to feel, and bad music thoroughly ruins that emotion. Thus, ...
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