What sets a scene?
Is it the acting or is it the story that builds up to the scene?

some can agure that it is actually the music/soundtrack that sets the scene.
A musical score that makes you tingle and you just listen too over and over.

In action films it may be a Fast high beat score like this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6FYs8aokiI

that clip is from the matrix

it may be a horror film like this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHKdOhb4rM

The film is Friday the 13th which is one of my faveorite horror films ever.
The music really makes the scenes and i will talk about why later.

The final scene with music that really set the scene is this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwy412nttI&feature=related

star wars episode 3 : Revenge of the sith


Now all three of these movies have soundtracks that helped make the movie feel like it did.

The matrix was a cool stylish film so for the lobby scene you hear music that has a strong beat going along to the action.
friday the 13th is a horror film and involves Jason vorhess killing teenagers, it came out in the early 80's ( however in the first film his mother was the killer ) but the music did something that scared the hell out of people more than freddy kruger or micheal myers, it was the music.
You hear the music before seeing jason, you know hes there somewhere so it prepares you for it but the film likes to play tricks on you.
you hear the music, expect him to gut some teenager but he doesnt so your constantley building up a sense of fear.

Star wars : episode 3 was the final film to made from George lucas and i openly admit i was so trying not to cry at this, not at whats happening or the story ( which was sad ) but the music score so suited the scenes.
Star wars films have always had amazing musical scores since the first one back in the70's.


Now for music videos i will again use 3 examples :

Alexinsonfire - Boild Frogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJcZaS0JthA

Rage agsint the machine - sleep now in the fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8wU9DdbqU

Micheal jackson - thriller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8


Now the first video is the use of having little storys in a music video but the second is the most important as it was one of the first music videos ever made and was used on MTV alot back in the early 80's when it started to air on TV.

Music videos are a very strong form of advertising as it can show the band and people put the onscreen action to the music.
some people watch the video for the video footage and not the music.

My next Blog post will be about editing video footage.