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  1. Aug 2021
    1. Some does not contribute to the construction of the narrative but functions instead as an “additive,” music that adds to the fi lm but not to the narrative.

      I think that the same piece of music could be both narrative and additive at different points of the story. For example, at the start of the Harry Potter franchise (this is all hypothetical I can't really remember the right details), the famous Hogwarts theme starts playing as they enter the school and it sounds spooky and exciting, but even without the music the thought of entering a magic school is still spooky and exciting, so it is additive. But when this music plays at the very end of the series as the main characters send their kids off to the school from the train station, it adds a sense of nostalgia to us, the viewer, who will be hearing the music for the "last" time in the movies, like hearing the school song as you graduate. While this sense of goodbye doesn't necessarily exist in the film because the characters have already graduated for a long time and are instead just sending their kids off. So in a sense, it's narrative.

    2. Composing for the Films pointed out, “A photographed kiss cannot actually be synchronized with an eight-bar phrase.”

      I think this is a great way to contrast live-action versus animation. Animation allows for each frame and second to be in synchrony to the music in a way that might seem awkward or unnatural in live-action. Maybe the suspension of reality allows audiences to see high levels of music/action synchrony as natural and not awkward.