Film Music: Interactive Audio-Visual Approaches

Abstract

This work deals with the analysis and composition of film music. After presenting the principal approaches in musical multimedia research, the work proposes a general music analysis tool that considers extra-musical aspects of a movie. The tool examines film-music from points of view related to the narrative of the film. It presents categories that point to functions of the music in an audio-visual context. The categories are non-exclusive. Each film requires the selection of the categories for analysis which are relevant to it. The goal is to avoid granting superiority to the visual plane, and to remark the analog influence of the two channels, sound and image, on the creation of the meaning. Afterwards, a few ideas for the application of the tool in learning music composition will be suggested.