I’ve been reading throughout the semester bits and bobs about how music functions in film. One of the main things I looked into was leitmotifs. I was hoping that I could’ve made something like that for the Stonethrow Films project but it wasn’t something they really wanted to do so instead I’m going to try and include that in the Fare Thee Well film.
A leitmotif is piece of music that is used throughout a film and is used to represent a character, mood or various other repeated things in a film. For example a really popular leitmotif is The Imperial March in Star Wars written by John Williams. This piece is used in scenes with Darth Vader and can be heard at various points throughout the film.