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Film Score Music To say that unison plays a large role in our society would not dojustice to one of the most all-important(a) and popular art forms of yesterday andtoday. We underestimate the effectiveness and power that music, in any form ,can digest over up to now the most insensitive of people. In virtually everything we doand see music is involved in some form or another. Be it a piece played at awedding, a song played on the radio or even the music played in the backgroundin a television commercial. The music is always there, reminding us of pastexperiences, making us smile and feel exhilaration and sometimes even making uscry. It is this power that music has over us that film score composers takeadvantage of when they are writing the music to accompany the movies. Aslisteners we often do not appreciate that the music that is scored for films orplayed in films is put there on purpose to create a trustworthy feeling, emphasize apoint, give more life to a character or sometimes to simply add humour. Whatthe average moviegoer does not ordinarily realize is that a great deal of time andthought goes into writing the score for a film and choosing the background musicfor a scene. None of the music is arbitrary themes and sub themes have beencreated with specific ideas in mind and have been put in place only to add tothe story and the characters. It is also important to acknowledge that theevolution into the type of film scoring that we are accustomed to today was nota quick or easy transition. It has taken almost a century to develop thespecific techniques that are used in todays films. When the first movingpictures were seen they were known as silent films, although they were notactually silent. They contained a very primitive type of musical accompanimentthat laid the foundation for what was to later develop. As time passed the typeof music found in films demonstrable into a fine art containing specificguidelines and techniques that most compos ers tend to follow. The averageperson does not usually pay astute attention to the music that is universe used ina film, however, if it were to not be there the films would seem empty and as ifsomething was missing. The actors, the writing and the direction is what isprimarily noticed in a film but the music is the inconspicuous supporter of all