Why is the soundtrack important to the film?

Written by helenmartiz — June 28, 2022

Music continues to bombard the viewer with emotions that “speak” to what is happening. In scenes from the brilliant feature film, the music served from the beginning the task of anticipating the approaching event, and Transcribery then reinforced the event by the transcribing subtitles of the film in question. In its sensual intensity it was ahead of the action on the screen up to a certain point, and then it merged with it. But at the same time it expressed the author’s emotional attitude towards the course of the action, it brought the mood in which the author interpreted the extemporaneous events to the spectator.

It sounded in unison with what was happening in the shots. In documentaries, films and programs, music is often used by directors to convey the mood of the course of life. This was the case, for example, in programs about the village. On the screen is the story of two old men living alone in an empty village. Sunny weather, there is an unhurried conversation about life in the yard. The old people are not complaining about their fate, but accepting it as a given. And in the music there are sad motifs of the author’s attitude towards their life in the village. But as soon as the director compares the music and the action on the screen according to the principle of sharp counterpoint, the mood music immediately becomes dramaturgical.

In terms of its functional role, music is most often called dramaturgical music, which adds its content to the action in the image and the texts spoken in the frame and behind the scenes, or changes the viewer’s understanding of the content of frames and words. The simplest example is not difficult to think of. Imagine a story about nature in Canada. Almost everything: fields, forests, hills, and birch groves.

Outwardly the difference is indistinguishable. But as soon as we are given country music to accompany it, the viewer immediately begins to realize that the action is taking place across the ocean. In this case, the music not only brings a national flavor, but through its nationality it also makes it possible to identify the country where the director has taken us. It is undoubtedly the simplest, yet meaningful element of the screen work.

Music as an expressive means told and brought to the viewer what could not be understood from the visuals. And every content element is part of the dramaturgical structure of the work. Therefore, music that complements or transforms the content of the visual and verbal series is called dramaturgical. Many years ago, when amateur cinema was on the rise, the studio of the Civil Engineering Institute created a documentary short film that won many prizes. I can’t say it was superbly conceived by the director, but it had an undeniable merit.

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