Extension Task - Mr Bush (:

The history of Hollywood’s technological development is one of opportunism driven by economic motives. Many critical accounts, however, suggest that the inventions of cinemas, and its following technological development, responded to a pre-existing aesthetic. 

In the late 1920s, the sound in cinema of picture palaces incorporated all the major features of cinema technology, it was essentially creating 19^th century inventions; mechanical sound recording, an efficient film transport mechanism, the electric light. Although, a few cinemas pay much attention to the development of sound technology, the cinematic equipment is a machine of the audible as well as the visible, and more fundamental changes have taken place in the technology of electrical sound recording and transmission than in the optics and chemistry of image processing.

There are two main sounds, Parallel and contrapuntal sounds. Parallel sounds are when the music is expected with a scene, for example soft romantic music playing over a love story. Whereas, contrapuntal sounds are when the music is not expected with a scene, for example, classical music playing over a fight scene.

For contrapuntal sounds, it allows the audience to see a different light what is actually going on in the scene, following on with my example for contrapuntal, in a fight with classical music playing over it would allow the audience to relate to the emotions in the scene instead of getting the adrenaline of the up-tempo music with a fight scene, which is parallel sounds.

On extra paper, I have done a collage of contrapuntal and parallel pictures with certain songs. For parallel sound, I used images for death and war; the music accompanied was ‘Phil Collins-Against All Odds’, this is parallel sounds because the music relates to the type of pictures presented.

On the other hand, for contrapuntal sounds I used romantic pictures with a song called ‘Requiem For a Dream by Clint Mansell’, this shows an intense orchestra instrumental with romantic pictures to show the contrast and how certain photos express different emotions.