Aaron

__**Week 6**__

1. Can music by itself (without lyrics) be humorous or funny? In my opinion, i don't think music just by itself can be humorous. Maybe some person my find it humorous but not me.

2. What musical techniques can be used to make music funny or humorous? Its usually fast-paced with lots of sudden breaks and sound effects here and there.

3. What kind of instruments and sounds are used to make a piece of music humorous or funny?
 * Piano
 * Trumpets
 * Violins
 * Trombone
 * Flutes/Whistles
 * Clarinets
 * Cymbals
 * Timpanis/drums/percussion
 * Adding weird sound effects

4. Can you think of a funny or find humorous piece of music that doesn't have lyrics? If you can, post a link or an .mp3 for your answer.

__**Week 5**__ Montage

//Rhythmic// media type="file" key="Rhythmic.flv" width="360" height="270"

//Intellectual// media type="file" key="Intellctual.flv" width="360" height="270" //Emotional// media type="file" key="Emotional.flv" width="360" height="270"

__**Week 3**__ Underscoring clips //Previously recorded// media type="file" key="translation-clip_1.flv" width="284" height="284"

//Composed// media type="file" key="underscoring .flv" width="360" height="270"

media type="file" key="In_The_Interest.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * A man is walking through a bombed out village. Through the broken window of a house, he sees a small bird, still in it's cage. He frees the bird. It flies away.

media type="file" key="Mystery.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * A man goes into a flower shop and asks the woman working there to help him pick out some flowers for his wife. The audience knows the man has been stalking her, but the woman doesn't.

media type="file" key="First_Love.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * A cartoon dog looks in through the window as his master allows the new cat to curl up in her lap.

//1. What is Underscoring and how does it work in films?//

Underscoring is music that is played to conveys an emotional or atmospheric background to the primary dialog or narration onscreen.

//2. How might the following musical qualities be useful in underscoring a scene? What considerations would you give to each of them when applied to underscoring//?

//Tonality -// Is the key/note that the music is in //Melody -// Is a memorable sequence of notes //Rhythm -// Is the flow of the beat in the music //Harmony -// Supports the melody, giving it depth and texture to the music //Timbre -// distinguishes the difference of notes from instruments and/or voices

__**Wk 2**__

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//Diagetic music//  - Is music presented as originated from source within the film's world. It is the actual sound coming the instrument, cd player, or etc. (the music's source) in the scene. - When you considering adding diagetic music to the scene, you need to think about continuity between scenes. Make sure that the music matches when the scene is changed.

Diagetic music coming from car radio in this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIk-xp3F3kI&feature=related Pulp Fiction - Car scene A shot is a continuous strip of motion picture film, created of a series of frames, that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. A sequence is a series of scenes which form a distinct narrative unit, usually connected either by unity of location or unity of time. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots. It emphasizes smooth transition of time and space within the movie. The classical style of editing is continuity editing which ensures temporal and spatial continuity as a way of advancing the narrative throughout the movie. A master shot records the entire action, a complete run-through from that camera position. That way if a tighter shot is forgotten during coverage, the director knows her editor will have enough material to show the scene in its entirety by cutting back to the master shot. The reaction shot is comprise of a cutaway – usually a close-up – of an actor reacting to something, like a conversation or a speech, though it can be pretty much anything. They are customarily deprived of dialogue, but not always. The technique of intercutting between two simultaneous stories or scenes. Montage is a combination of images taken from any number of media (photographs, film, and handmade). These images can be whole or partial, glued together on a surface (such as a photomontage), or edited together to produce a video or film.
 * //Shot vs Sequence//
 * Cutting to Continuity
 * Classical Style of Editing
 * Master Shot/Reaction Shot
 * Parallel editing
 * Montage

//Outside the room// media type="file" key="purseman_outside the room.flv" width="360" height="270" //Silly// media type="file" key="purseman_silly.flv" width="360" height="270" Sad media type="file" key="purseman_sad.flv" width="360" height="270" Suspicious media type="file" key="purseman_suspicous.flv" width="360" height="270"
 * __Wk 1__**

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Sun Block fail

Assignment 1 - Team 3

__//**Diminished in C**//__ media type="file" key="team 3- F_diminished.mp3" width="240" height="20" media type="file" key="team 3- C_diminished chord.mp3" width="240" height="20" media type="file" key="team 3- B_diminished chord in C.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * F diminished
 * //C diminished//
 * //B diminished//