Silent source music.

Objective music is also called in-picture music or sound source music. Refers to the music that should be included in the prescribed situations of the film. Such as characters singing, playing musical instruments, radio broadcasts, etc. At this time, the presence of music is indispensable (but special arrangements can also be made).

Subjective music is also called off-screen music or silent source music. The picture does not provide a basis for the appearance of music, but is music specially created by the composer in order to shape the character's personality, express the character's inner emotions, or enhance the environmental atmosphere.

It is a supplement, explanation or evaluation of the picture. It expresses the composer's subjective attitude towards the events shown in the film. It can deepen the content of the picture and enhance the artistic appeal of the film.

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Nature and characteristics

After film became a comprehensive art, music still maintained the particularity of its own artistic expression. For example, if you are good at lyricism but not good at narrative, you need hearing to feel, it takes time to show the image, and you can appreciate it through the re-creation of playing and singing. However, there have been corresponding changes in the way of expression:

< p>1. The music concept must be based on the film's subject matter, style, character, and the director's overall artistic conception, so that the auditory image of the music and the visual image of the picture can be integrated to reflect comprehensive aesthetic principles.

Except for mythological films, fairy tale films, science fiction films and modern experimental films, the characters, expressions, movements, language, environmental atmosphere, etc. in the films are mostly natural forms that are close to real life. . Therefore, film music is not as exaggerated and stylized as the purely instrumental music for concert performances and the opera music and dance drama music for stage performances.

2. Music is often combined with dialogue and natural sound effects. During the silent film era, music was sometimes the only sound, permeating the film from beginning to end. Due to the advancement of recording technology, in the sound film period, in addition to music, it was also possible to record language and natural sound effects, which relieved the music overload phenomenon in the silent film period.

Directors and composers start from the real needs of the film and use music appropriately and effectively only when expressing lyricism and dramatic atmosphere. In this way, it not only conforms to the artistic laws of music, but also improves the aesthetic function of comprehensive film art. This allows music to truly develop into an important and organic part of the comprehensive art of film, and it also promotes the formation of a segmented statement structure for film music.