Keywords: ‘How far’ and ‘agree’ and ‘music’ and ‘important’ and ‘film’.
- Highlight emotion
- Excitement/suspense
- Entertainment (e.g. musicals)
- Indicate period (e.g. the Sixties)
- Draws audience in – pitch/tempo/melody (especially opening/closing credits)
- Shapes character
- Intensifies action scenes
- Big role in silent movies (e.g. The Artist)
- Accompanies visual comedy
- Helps with continuity
- Can distract and be overbearing
- Dialogue/drama without music is more naturalistic
- Too much manipulation
- Needs to be discrete/sensitive/balanced