"Followed" - Final Video Project (password - followed)

MEDP160 Final: "Followed" by Charlotte Schweiger from Charlotte Schweiger on Vimeo.

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Museum of the Moving Image: Technicolor and Scoring

After exploring the library of film scores I learned more about the integral effect that music and scoring has on the tone of a film. Prior to this, I did not realize just how much the composer is seen as an artistic collaborator with the director. I was intrigued to discover how composers design a soundscape around visual clues and motifs. It was mentioned for example in composer Rachel Portman's biography, that she is often chosen for quirky films, as her own modes in music suit the genre. For this reason directors will often work with the same composers, as their tastes line up to produce a single vision.

At the museum there was also an exhibit on the invention of technicolor, featuring a scene of Judy Garland in Meet Me In St.Louis. The complexity of early forms of color film are a million miles away from modern digital filmmaking. Today color is standard and is often lost on the casual viewer. After watching this however, I learned that the carful selection of a color palliate reflects the genre and motifs of a story and character.  For example the color of the scene was bright and pastel, fitting for the time period and musical style of the film (Meet Me In St.Louis). Since the standardization of technicolor we have come to expect color and in fact may only recognize it's absence.