The Essence and Characteristics of Movie Music

After the film became a comprehensive art, music still maintained the particularity of its own artistic expression. If you are good at lyric, not good at narrative, you need to feel by hearing, you need time to express your image, and you can appreciate it through the re-creation of performance and singing, but the expression has changed accordingly:

Music conception should be based on the theme, style, the overall artistic conception of the characters and directors, so that the auditory image of music can be integrated with the visual image of the picture, reflecting the comprehensive aesthetic principles. In addition to fairy tales, fairy tales, science fiction films and modern experimental films, the characters' modeling, expressions, movements, language and environmental atmosphere in the films are mostly natural forms close to real life. Therefore, film music is not as exaggerated and stylized as pure instrumental music in concerts and opera and ballet music in stage performances.

② Music often combines dialogue with natural sound effects. In the silent film period, sometimes music is the only sound, which runs through the whole film. Due to the progress of recording technology, in the sound film period, in addition to music, language and natural sound effects can also be recorded, which liberated the phenomenon of music overload in the silent film period. Starting from the realistic needs of movies, directors and composers can only use music properly and effectively when expressing lyrical and dramatic atmosphere. This not only conforms to the artistic law of music, but also improves the aesthetic function of film comprehensive art, which makes music really develop into an important organic part of film comprehensive art and promotes the formation of segmented narrative structure of film music.