Score: A Film Music Documentary

00:30:30,197 --> 00:30:34,334 to be as the man walking out as the new president. 502 00:30:34,367 --> 00:30:36,269 <font color="#808080">(Theme music continues)</font> 503 00:30:36,303 --> 00:30:40,407 <font color="#808080">(Lemone)</font> Whatever the audience felt in the theatre, 504 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,642 it was resonant again. 505 00:30:42,675 --> 00:30:46,046 The power of the score in and of itself is amazing. 506 00:30:48,215 --> 00:30:50,650 <font color="#808080">(Tan)</font> When we're watching a 90-minute standard film, 507 00:30:50,683 --> 00:30:54,221 we make about 21,000 or more eye movements. 508 00:30:54,254 --> 00:30:58,058 And even though we feel like we have full control 509 00:30:58,091 --> 00:31:01,228 and freedom of where to look, many studies on eye tracking 510 00:31:01,261 --> 00:31:04,231 have shown that actually a film audience 511 00:31:04,264 --> 00:31:07,034 is usually looking at about the same place on a screen 512 00:31:07,067 --> 00:31:09,069 at about the same time. 513 00:31:09,102 --> 00:31:12,639 One way that the eye can be directed to a specific spot 514 00:31:12,672 --> 00:31:16,543 on the screen is when there's something about the music 515 00:31:16,576 --> 00:31:19,479 that matches some characteristic on the screen. 516 00:31:19,512 --> 00:31:23,383 For example, a rising pitch with something that is rising. 517 00:31:26,086 --> 00:31:28,155 And a great example of this comes from 518 00:31:28,188 --> 00:31:32,225 the "Married Life" montage from the film, "Up." 519 00:31:32,259 --> 00:31:35,295 The first time that we see the balloons 520 00:31:35,328 --> 00:31:37,597 that are tied to Carl's cart, 521 00:31:37,630 --> 00:31:40,433 that's really important because the balloons are going 522 00:31:40,467 --> 00:31:43,036 to be an important visual motif, 523 00:31:43,070 --> 00:31:47,107 an important theme for the entire film. 524 00:31:47,140 --> 00:31:53,013 We see Carl, and then we see Ellie walking out with a parrot. 525 00:31:53,046 --> 00:31:57,117 And then the balloon cart rises and comes back down. 526 00:31:57,150 --> 00:31:58,986 So it's very interesting to see 527 00:31:59,019 --> 00:32:03,523 that music can be part of the choreography of the dance 528 00:32:03,556 --> 00:32:06,659 of our eye movements during a film sequence. 529 00:32:06,693 --> 00:32:08,595 It used to be representative scoring, 530 00:32:08,628 --> 00:32:10,397 where everything you see, you hear. 531 00:32:10,430 --> 00:32:14,067 Walk up the steps. <font color="#808080">(Makes rising sound effect)</font> 532 00:32:14,101 --> 00:32:16,369 Romantic kiss. 533 00:32:16,403 --> 00:32:18,605 The eye's doing the same thing the ear's doing. 534 00:32:18,638 --> 00:32:21,141 There's so many decisions to make in movies. 535 00:32:21,174 --> 00:32:24,744 Hollywood was going through an odd transition in the '60s, 536 00:32:24,777 --> 00:32:28,081 especially the mid-'60s to the early '70s. 537 00:32:28,115 --> 00:32:29,616 One of the things that got thrown out was the idea 538 00:32:29,649 --> 00:32:32,019 of the old-fashioned orchestral score. 539 00:32:32,052 --> 00:32:35,088 <font color="#808080">♪ in restless dreams I walked alone ♪</font> 540 00:32:35,122 --> 00:32:37,090 now there was a movement toward source music. 541 00:32:37,124 --> 00:32:39,259 <font color="#808080">♪ narrow streets of cobblestone ♪</font> 542 00:32:39,292 --> 00:32:40,560 folk music... 543 00:32:40,593 --> 00:32:45,298 <font color="#808080">("Bonnie and Clyde" theme music plays)</font> 544 00:32:45,332 --> 00:32:48,201 Intimate types of musical groupings... 545 00:32:48,235 --> 00:32:51,738 <font color="#808080">♪ take a load off, Annie ♪</font> 546 00:32:51,771 --> 00:32:53,506 <font color="#808080">♪ take a load for free</font> 547 00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:55,208 it was just different. The '60s were a lot 548 00:32:55,242 --> 00:32:58,511 of composers who really knew what they were doing, 549 00:32:58,545 --> 00:33:00,713 who didn't want to do it the old way. 550 00:33:00,747 --> 00:33:05,585 <font color="#808080">("Planet of the Apes" theme music plays)</font> 551 00:33:05,618 --> 00:33:10,623 <font color="#808080">(Kraft)</font> Jerry Goldsmith was absolutely the most innovative composer 552 00:33:10,657 --> 00:33:14,061 to work on mainstream movies on a regular basis. 553 00:33:14,094 --> 00:33:16,229 What's amazing about "Planet of the Apes" 554 00:33:16,263 --> 00:33:19,566 is he's using all these modern techniques. 555 00:33:19,599 --> 00:33:23,203 He reapplied it and put it into drama. 556 00:33:23,236 --> 00:33:27,440 <font color="#808080">(Theme music continues)</font> 557 00:33:27,474 --> 00:33:32,079 Metal mixing bowls and rubber balls being bounced into a bowl. 558 00:33:32,112 --> 00:33:34,781