THE POWER OF MUSIC IN FILM - How music affects film
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- We look at how music can manipulate characters or scenes in films.
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we watched this in music class…
same
Us to
I’m doing it right now
In music class
Same, the sugar part though🤣🤣🤣🤣
I do it right now in my class
As a filmmaker... I really appreciated this video. I should add that there are times when music is overused... silence and natural sounds are also a good mix.
Absolutely. I'm currently in school for sound design, and I think silence can be one of the best instruments, besides natural/ambient sounds, which are also killer, like you mentioned.
Agreed. I've seen a few films and tv series where neverending background music was getting on my nerves.
Also, I found this video because I was looking for something about where a film uses a song, but that abruptly ends when it goes from one scene to the next.
It can work funny in a comedy, but in other films I find it a weak mechanism to keep the viewer's attention (because the script/acting just isn't compelling enough).
You know, that thing that sounds as if someone suddenly pulled the plug out of the stereo. Hate it.
liar
@robinmes shush
@@jasp_innit24 bro never watched a hayao miyazaki film
There are not many videos on youtube that explain the effect of filmmusik so well. Great job
Thank you!!
I agree with u bro....bcaz i searched and finally came here
Not sure why this video hasn't gotten more attention. Very well made and enjoyable!
May be coz people still believe "Only visualization can reveal everything of on going scene "🤐🤐
Because people think it's enough to just learn how to use an editing software and they call themselves editors
Host looks like a cross between keanu reeves and Chris evans
omg yes that's exactly what i thought xDD
That must be the bäst compliment someone can ever get 🤣
Jared Leto
Dam
Best description
I just watched half of youtube searching for a good video showing impact of music on the movie. This one is so far the best. Good work man! :-)
Thanks Mirek!
Same!
Same here
There are also a number of videos by a different TH-camr who took clips from things like Lion King and Back to the Future and just presented them with different music. No commentary, but I find it is a good follow up activity to watching this video.
It’s been five years since this comment hehe
'did you put sugar in this??!!'
'ye I did'
'so you have chosen death'
no ones going to talk about him casually stroking the daffodils
haha
came here to see if anyone else noticed :)
The power of music in film is often significantly underestimated. There are so many things happening subconsciously when we are watching a scene with film music. Well done!
1:10 went from a sugar mishap to a cheesy romance XD
Underrated comment!
better lovestory than twilight
@@veronicasantamaria278 it's basically a commentary on the video and it's underrated 🤔
@Jack Raiden SAME BRO
What is the name of the song
Just curious
1:30 the movie just finished, the problems of the character are now solved and now he is remembering what he went through
2:07 After killing his first victim, he realizes that he is slowly going crazy, but at the same time, he likes this.
2:33 The only friend he had just died and now he realizes that he is completely alone in this cruel world.
2:58 He's trying to catch the train where his girlfriend left.
3:36 He just realized what his enemy's plan was and now he's running to stop him before it's too late.
4:09 he discovers the briefcase that his father told him not to open and when he opens it he discovers the biggest family secret...
4:45 Jumanji
Gotta love Jumanji
the Jumanji got me
I imagine this video would be recommended to everyone in ten years time.
My music teacher showed this to my class today.. I have no regrets
The host kinda looks like Steve Rogers from Infinity War
I was thinking he looked more like John Wick
and Tim Roth
Big oof
Super! Il fait!
Yeah
I hope that someday YT recommends this to lots of people so the views would rack up and get you more subs. Nicely done. :)
I absolutely love this. It’s so well produced and so well explained
This is absolutely my favorite video, when it comes to showing the impact of music on different scenes. Very well done!
Color literally works the same way. All Disney villains have a ominous neon shade of green on at least one of their scenes denoting that they are the evil person in the movie. If you replaced green (evil, envy, greed, jealousy) or purple (mystery, intrigue, confusion) with say a light shade of sky blue, that would be like adding the "benny hill theme" to the final scene in fight club.
I love this resource so much. My kids crack up every time when you reach the sugar in the tea scene. The nearly romantic music has them in stitches!
It actually does change the theme/feelings of the scene with different musics!
WTH this is insane i literally watch the same scene but different music and it changes everything OMG good vid man
I was searching youtube for how music and soundtracks impact the mood of the scene and of the dozens I watched, this was by FAR the best!!! (old, but good and still VERY relevant)
OMG!!!!!
STILL RELEVANT AFTER 7YEARS!, THIS RIGHT HERE IS A MASTERPIECE
Awesome Man... This video deserves lot more attention
As a film composer and music producer, I love this. How come I never saw it! Very inspiring!
Thank you Jack. If you need hands for your projects let me know :)
I use it in English language class for B2 students, they love it and now approach film and music in a different way. TY.
This was played in music GCSE class. I'm back because I loved it
Excellent example how to show, not just tell what you want your audience to understand.
Stunning example -- I was about to build my own then "Uhh.. nope. These folks nailed it." THANK YOU.
Good video and music example.. Nice learning time
We watching in our music class today...
1:10 this is the best scene ever
duckboy do u know what music it us???
M4H4RL1K4 Lol “True” by Spandau Ballet…
I just showed this to my cinema film class at Columbia. Thank you.
This is exactly the video I was looking for when I searched for 'the importance of music in film'
Bravo! I never thought that with mix 1 you could not get such a beautiful result!
Excellent video. Using in my Sunday Night church sermon on Music in the Church.
Me sitting looking at the city at night while listening to sad music: le cri
Me sitting looking at the city at night with happy music: BaNG bAng
When the romantic music started playing I called out “Do you wanna be my sugar?” And the whole class started laughing
Lol the running scene is like a wes Anderson film
At 5:25 bro rizzed up the entire music class
Totally brilliant! I'm creating scoring cues myself. This video really shows the power of music in movies.
1:43 I can’t be the only one who heard it go from Star Wars to Batman
4:26 ''Hey Vincent, we happy ?''
I feel bad for the kids in my class that had to watch this
excellent video to express the importance of music in the various films out there, even outside the cinema, since it works quite well in video games
This tutorial was incredibly engaging and informative, well done.
Definitely insightful on how different music changes the same scene meaning and interpretation!
I’m supposed to be doing a video like this for choir but I cannot think of any good ideas that I can use two songs for. So I’m just watching the video over and over again
I watching this at lockdown for my online school learning. This is so good i love this video
Absolutely brilliant delivery of the point you are trying to get across to us. Outstanding.
Perfect for my English class. I usually do this when we study a film and I just pick the most random song to play and mute the movie's audio. It changes the whole feeling, but almost always still matches the physical performance. I will definitely use this. Thank you
I'm watching this video as research for my project in college and this is simply fantastic honestly
This was just shown in my film class today, nice work :)
Why is this the only Vid you made. Pure youtube gold.
This would be a great clip introducing people to a course on how to create music
Simply Amazing!
This is amazing and so SO MUCH better than the other videos explaining music and film scenes! I can only agree with the positive comments given.
Thanks for making learning so enjoyable and straightforward.
this music is amazing !! that horn solo is 🔥🔥
Love This!!!! Thanks for creating something my High School Men's Chorus will Appreciate and learn from !!!
Great job! A very good video for my next English class.
What a fantastic video... a great educational resource. Thanks for this.
Love the pretentiousness of the shot at 4:37, just randomly stroking flowers hahaha good stuff
We watched this in class and could not stop laughing and making jokes.
Great resource for my Composing with Technology class for an intro to the Soundtrack project! Thank you.
Great lesson. (Happy music playing)
"Music changes everything" *Starts up I will give you my all 2017*
Bravo! so enjoyable to watch. This should have more views. Thank you for the laughs.
My music teacher played this in class lmao
At 3:04 thats the way i ran at recess while chasing someone
Man..... this really helped open my eyes for my future projects. THANKS
One of the best videos ever I watched. Love from India.
Spectacular video! Even though I watched this in school, it is a video I would watch for enjoyment, as well as learning, at home.
J’adore la vidéo merci à mon prof d’anglais préféré de me l’avoir fait connaître !
je me suis servie de cette vidéo pour mon oral de bac de Littérature Anglais. Merci les gars elle est géniale
What a find! Thank you for making this. 🙏🎵🙌
i am a huge fan of music, and am planning to become a filmmaker myself. i really found this video very helpful😀😀😀
Thanks!
Thank you! This is one of the best vídeos I've ever seen.
Thank you. Very effective examples to illustrate and reinforce your message.
This is one among the best videos!!!!!!!!! So beautifully explained!!!!
The hard part is finding the sound that would fit the video into how you envisioned it to
subbed just because of this video.. well done Jack...From South Africa with love
This is FANTASTIC! Thank you !
It's amazing, but at 4:35 I don't fully agree, as the actor isn't really playing the unpleasantness here. So the acting does play a big part as well.
I came here to study, didn't know Infinity War Captain would teach me about music and cinema.
Edit: This really helped, thank you.
ya same here xD
really good. My students will love it! Thank you!
this is the best video i have ever seen in my intire life you are so creative
2:58 aggressively Family Feature Film from the 90s
Fact - You searched for this video, not recommended
This was just Awesome, every little detail was planned to make me fell what I just felt. which is Cinematic Fulfilment.
POV ur here from music class
Best video I've seen characterizing this concept, most likely because you made the music yourself and were able to synchronize the auditory beats with the visual beats. Very well done
This video is very entertaining and very knowledgeable!
Thanks Captain America, this helped for a school activity I needed to do.
We were told to watch this stuff in English class
Great video, made me wonder if we were "programmed" to perceive specific music as the carrier of the specific emotion, or would someone who never saw any other movie would react and have same emotion as those that are used to this "style".
Maybe if we had a test group that was listening to horror movies music and associated it with joyful scenes and vice versa would react to these clips completely different...
I'm sure how we perceive music is partly influenced by how we've seen it typically used but a lot has to do with the composition and that is largely explained with music theory. A lot of horror movies use dissonance which is the combination of notes that don't produce harmony and create that tension we normally hear; usually, our brains don't like it. The dissonance comes from how the notes' frequencies interact with each other. Other genres also use dissonance to convey tension, conflict, foreshadow something ominous or even give a false sense of something bad by leading with dissonance and then switching to consonance to create that musical resolve. So, that's what I can remember off the top of my head from my music classes and probably an overly simplified explanation.
Hey, good question!
As @Kyl Lite explained, there is a large part on music theory about harmony and so on.
Biological/physically you should know, that your brain is processing musical input different then normal sounds or voices. And there the emotions get "created".
But some people (not many, but more than you think - unfortunately I don't have any numbers) have a problem with there neural connections right in this part of the brain.
So in others case they can't here music at all, they here just swoosh or random noises.
In my case, I litteraly hear the music, but can't "feel" it as "normal" people do. It's just sounds produced by instruments or people talking strange (I mean singing :D ).
So with this explanation first:
I understand this brilliant video of @Jack Pierce but can't related it to me, because I'm hereing no difference between the scenes.
For example I thought the guy was running away from something bad in the first take. And in the second too :D
The same with the chest... wasn't there something good in it in both clips? :)
And the last answer to your example with the horror movies: Yeah, most of them are quit borring to me. You could try watching a horror movie without any music, that would be like what I'm feeling there.
Greetings, and if there are some more questions no one has to be too shy to ask :)
(Sorry for some mistakes in the englisch language)
@@evencutter9703 Interesting, so music can't set the mood for you? Watching a movie with or without sound track is the same for you?
Is there a name for such a condition if you had it tested or what?
@@ScorpioHR Exactly, it's no difference between music or no music.
I haven't tested it by a doctor or so, but it's called: "Musical Anhedonia", and a part of "music agnosia"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_anhedonia
your dead on, two things that influence how we perceive a scene is musical expectation and learned associations.
If every horror movie used what we perceive in this day and age as "joyful" music, we as society would now associated that specific combination of tones with horror/sinister.
You guys are underrated af.
One of a kind. Thank you for this fun and instructive clip!
You may not believe it, but I discovered this video in my English class (seems like my professor liked it). And... I really loved it so I came to search it on TH-cam !
It really is a nice video, you’re talented ! Good luck for what’s next !
(Sorry, I’m French, so I probably made a few mistakes)
Great presentation