Music In Film

One of my best friends Hannah is the most musical person I know, (When I say musical I mean as in music instuments not Singing musicals) and her dream job would be to write music from films or in other words and film score. So when I had the homework of doing a small clip about film music you want to guess who went to for advice on what music to do??? You guessed it, the moment "Homework and Film Music" came out of my mouth she pounced on me and told me what she thought would be best,and that she was so excited she is lending me the DVD and soundtrack!! So here is me talking about as she puts it "On of the best music scences EVER"

Now I know I have already reviewed Prince Caspian, but this is The lion The Witch and The Wardrobe and they are both different films. Anyway the film score composer is Harry Gregson-Williams A.K.A (Accourding to Hannah) THE BEST FILM COMPOSER OF ALL TIME. And even though Im not obsessed with him as she is, his music is really good. I think the films everyone will know he has sone has been the Shrek films, and the music from there is brilliant. His most recent film would have to be X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and in that film the music is WICKED!!! And aswell as all of these amazing films, he has also done this music for the Narnia films.

Anyone who wants to listen to the song here is a spotify link: Harry Gregson-Williams – The Battle

And to those who are like "WTH is spotify?!?!" Here is a you tube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idiEsYmQWa0

The scene I am chosing is called the battle, and basically the main characters are getting ready to fight the white witch and the music here is MIND BLOWING!! In this scene Aslan has just left so Peter and Edmund are deciding whether or not to go to battle. It starts of really quiet and dark and mysterious like you not to sure what its going to be like, then you get this up lift of horns and then it flows into violins and all smooth but still with the horns but there is not precussion. I think is really fits the scene for there is this build up ready to go to battle and no one wants to go but the courage there is amazing, and you can feel it through the music.

Then the next part of the song is really cool, Peter has made the decsion to fight and insted of going straghit to the battle the music picks up with the horns and then you go through the map they have been studying and into the battle itself, the editing is brilliant for you get a real sense of what is going on and the way the transition between deciding whether to go and going to FANTASTIC.

Here is the screen shots!!!! From left to right, make sure to go on the you tube link to watch it, it is unmissable.

The next scene is amazing with the camera, it travels over the coming army and the music is so uplifiting and there is so much hope in it, and then when the camera changes and goes over to the bad guys there is a change and the music goes all dark and earey......

Anyway, over all this part of the film is AMAZING and even though my friend might be a bit obssesed with score music she chose a really good scene to do, and I haven't seen the Narnia films in a while so it was nice to see it again.