FYE 101 - Stories through Sound and Music

How does sound combine with images to create meaning in film? Sound can suggest images of its own and, likewise, moving images can take on musical characteristics through editing. In this course we will study the “rhetoric” of sound and how it works with and sometimes against images, to tell stories. We will examine how sound and the music elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and orchestration deepen our understanding of the characters, stories and narrative elements in film through such films The Rules of the Game, High Noon, Hiroshima mon amour, Psycho, Blue, Moonrise Kingdom, Love Me Tonight, Casablanca, The Phantom of the Opera, High Noon, Psycho, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Credits 1

Compass Attributes
First Year Experience