MUSIC IN FILM

Music within film is very important. Not only it helps to create the ambience of the film and its plot, it also helps to evoke the emotions of the characters, so that the audience gets to feel the same thing to happen. For example Hitchcock's suspense thrillers,like "Psyco", the music evokes the horror sensation of the plot. Without music, the film won't have as much of an impact as it does with music. Music also helps you to relate to a certain situation within the movie, a sad song resonates with the sadness felt by the characters, for example. And a happy song lifts the mood of the film. In turn, the audience feels the same.

As both music and film sequences are structured in time according to the viewers' perception, there is a strong link between the two when played together. "A viewer has two perceptual modes whilst watching film and listening to music, real time or ontological applies to where the viewer/listener perceives each note or movement, and psychological time in which the composition/film is perceived more subjectively and the viewer takes what they see/hear as a whole". Music is a structuring in time, and film music is especially good a giving the viewer a sense of time passing, although upon watching a film, the music becomes part of the background and somewhat dissolves into the whole viewing entity. The sense of time can alter depending on whether the viewer is watching the film, or listening to the music.