Friday 22 January 2010

Film Music

This term's main theme in form I and Primary is Musicals and Music in Film. Two projects on a composer who wrote music for a film are found below. Check back soon for more of these projects.

Film: Up Music
Composer: Michael Giacchino
Up is a 2009 Disney Pixar film, and the music director is Michael Giacchino. Giacchino also wrote the music for Pixar’s The Incredibles and Ratatouille. I like the music in this film because it emphasizes everything that the characters do. Giacchio has compared the film to an opera because each character has their own theme that changes during a particular moment in the story. Giacchino himself is an American soundtrack composer, who has composed many other video game and film soundtracks other than Pixar films.
by Ally Boyd-Crotty

Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Composer: A.R. Rahman
This composer has composed music for more than 130 Indian films, incorporating jazz, rock, Indian pop and western classical music into their soundtracks. He was born on the 6th of Janurary 1966 in Chennai, India. Rahman lost his father, a famous composer in India, when he was at a very young age. He was then raised by his mother, Kareema. He studied many different styles of music. He uses all these styles in the film Slumdog Millionaire. The most famous is Jai Ho.
by Molly Maire

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