Music on TV

While watching TV, there is a lot of music incorporated into the shows and the commercials. Without paying very close attention a lot of the music is overlooked. I noticed that the music in TV is used in a very similar manner to music in movies. There was some kind of music during the majority of the time that I watched. Some of it was very quiet and completely in the background, while other times it seemed to rule the scene. It also was used to change the mood of the scene and make the scene more believable or more intense. When the show went to commercials or came back from commercials there was usually a certain music that played introducing the show. Nearly all of the commercials had music in them and a lot of them were very noticeable tunes that we link to a certain companies, shows, etc. Overall I noticed a lot more music than I normally do and I heard music being used in the same manner as the music in movies.

Music in Movies

I chose to watch the movie "Transformers" to see how music is used in movies. During the opening scene it was easy to see how the music portrayed the mood of the movie. The music seemed valiant and it gave the sense that it was going to be an action movie. The music also helped give information about one of the first scenes. A middle-eastern type of music began playing while the movie showed U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. This gave the audience more of a sense of where the location of the scene. Another instance of this could be how Bumblebee changes the radio station to fit the mood, or to express a certain emotion. There were not many instances where music was a transition from one scene to the next, but I did see how music was "attached" to certain characters or events. There was specific music that was played whenever the government was attempting to figure out what to do next, when the decepticons were winning, when the autobots were winning, or when more decepticons or autobots were landing on earth. Throughout nearly the entire movie, music was playing whether it was background music or a main part of the scene. Overall music plays a very important role in this movie. The audience's emotions are affected more with the music than they would be if there was not music in the movie. I never realized how much of a role music played in movies until really concentrating on the role it plays.