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Choosing music for style and tone

Choosing music for style and tone

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Choosing music for style and tone

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We've now spotted the music cue for this scene. Now let's try and find a piece of music that tells the the story that we want the audience to feel from our film. In order to do that, we need to figure out what we want the audience to feel during this scene. In other words, we need to put some adjectives to the music. That is why I also call a spotting session an adjective session. These adjectives will come from your log line, as we talk about Joseph changes over the course of the film and how this scene contributes to that change. So what do we know about what happens to Joseph in this scene? We know that the adjectives for the changes in this particular scene are, becomes desperate and working. So we need to either create or find a piece of music that fulfills these adjectives. So here's a piece of music that we got from Pump Audio Library. Let's listen to it and see if it has those adjectives that we have in our mind. Nope, not really. Let's try another one. that's more like it…

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