It’s a long clip (c. 16 minutes), but it’s a doozy. And it starts with a swell vertical tracking shot.
Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) is widely regarded as the first British talkie, and this clip testifies to his genius and self-promotional acumen. Right off the bat, as film was still struggling to develop its own [...]

Claudia Gorbman, in her article “Narrative Film Music”:
“Whatever music is applied to a film segment will do something, will have an effect—just as whatever two words one puts together will produce a meaning different from that of each word separately because the reader/spectator automatically imposes meaning on such combinations.”
I’ll extend Gorbman’s point to encompass general [...]

In the three years I worked as a videographer/editor for a production company, I came to the realization that, especially with short form pieces (at our company, demos for documentaries and commercials) the music used can drastically alter the meaning. After retiring to a career in academia, one of my fields of research has been [...]