How Does Music Enhance The Story? 🎶

Chords 

Major 

-Upbeat

-Happy music 

-Music tone

Minor

-Sad tone

Tempo

Fast

-Energetic 

-Intense 

-Gain interest 

Slow

-Bored

-Lazy 

-Lethargic

Dynamics 

Loud

-Energy 

-Intense 

-Rising Action  

Quiet

-Background

-Makes you focus/listen

  -Builds tension 

Diegetic Sound

Sounds that happen naturally e.g footsteps

Non-Diegetic 

Sounds added to a scene - music 

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 I think this section was a Major tone but it would turn into a minor tone and enhance from a slow, calming atmosphere and the dynamic is quiet and gentle.

-Music clip 101-

What scene?

a. Opening scene.

Techniques?

a. Minor chords - tired

b. Short tempo

c. Gained volume - Build intensity

d. Non-diegetic sound

Audience feel...

a. Sad scene 

b. foreshadowing 

c. interested

Directors purpose...

a. Build emotion / atmosphere

- Music clip 102-  

Minor tone, slow and calm, quiet dynamics and it is a non-digetic sound.

-reaping scene-

What scene?

a. The reaping - music starts as Katniss walks up onto the stage.

Techniques?

a. Minor chords

b. Slow tempo

c. Dynamics - gains volume, then drops, then builds.

Audience feel...

a. Emotional

b. Eery 

c. Ominous

d. Melancholic 

Directors Purpose...

a. Foreshadowing

b. Sadness

c. Katniss just volunteered

d. She will most likely get eliminated 

e. Lets us feel Katniss emotions on a personal level. 

-Music clip 103-

-Rue's farewell- 

What scene?

a. When we had to let Rue go... 

b. Rue's elimination - Rue is killed and Katniss prepares her body by surrounding it by flowers, then she solutes to the TV camera towards District 11.

Techniques?

a. Minor chords

b. Slow to medium tempo 

c. Dynamics - Builds to forte 

Audience feel...

a. Katniss's grief, sorrow, misery, anger at the unfair death, or her friend.

Directors Purpose...

a. Make us feel Katniss's emotion 

b. More intense than if we heard her scream, makes us notice more.

c. Uses music to tell us the pain she feels.