MUSIC IN FILM A brief history of soundtrack
PARAMETERS TO ANALYZE SOUNDTRACKS
According to the relationship Music-Image:
- Source-music (diegetic): Music whose source is logically located within the story space. Source music is generally inserted into a scene, making the characters and the scene aware of it.
- Non-diegetic underscore music: Music whose origin doesn’t appear in the image, like an ambient music
According to the relation with the visual message:
- Convergent Music: Direct relation with the feeling or ambient of the scene; emphatise with the main emotion. - Divergent Music: It contrasts with the effect suggested by the image provoking te opposite emotion
According the relation Music-Plot:
- Integrated Music: The presence of the music is by the plot (most of the diegetic music)
- Non integrated Music: It hasn’t got relation with the plot. It only reinforces or accompany the image
According to the location in the montage:
-Generic block: during the opening and ending credits
-Sequence block: during a sequence (the main theme, secundary theme or another opposite)
-Transition block: Music to join two sequences
According to the volume:
- In the first plane: It acts over the image and dialogues - In the second plane: It acts as background music or joining sequences
According to the origin of the composition of the music: Original music or a musical loan
According to the relacion with the historical moment of the action:
- Anachornistic music: music is not corresponded with the chronology of the action
- Corresponded music with the chronology of the action