Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Emotional Impact of Sound

Two things you should check out to help you think about the impact of sound on your production work.  The first is an Imagine documentary called "How Music Makes Us Feel", which you can find here.  It contains interviews with musicians, including Emile Sande and Laurie Anderson, psychologists and film composers.  It examines how music creates emotional responses in us and looks at how both composition and instrumentation affects this.
The second is on the blog of the excellent documentary maker, Adam Curtis.  It uses the same piece of film and place two different pieces of music with it.  Watch the two versions and think about how it affects our attitude towards the people within the film.  Watch and read here.

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