Word: soundtrack
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...films from varied backgrounds, many of them relied on the same techniques and started to blend together. Stop-motion and fast-forwarding effects were popular with filmmakers trying to pack more time into 60 seconds, and much of the music seemed to come from the same new-age soundtrack with the requisite beeps and static. Not surprisingly, the one-minute format was better at capturing small moments than complex concepts. “About a minute is a good amount of time for a sort of visual gag,” audience member Diana G. Kimball...
...free indirect style. The same technique also allows the fiction reader to inhabit a young girl’s confusion in Henry James’s novel “What Maisie Knew.” The juxtaposition is a touch precious—just a sappy soundtrack away from a literary criticism Hallmark moment—but it plays into Wood’s theory of fiction.If, as Wood suggests, fiction is a space between mimicry and invention, a “house,” then its creation depends on the writer’s ability to construct...
...deadens it. Just as Kinnear portrays a very ordinary man, director Marc Abraham places him in a very dreary world—1950s Detroit. The color quality of the film is bleak and sometimes so washed-out as to seem almost black and white. The muted music of the soundtrack is often overshadowed by background noises, such as people murmuring in a restaurant or traffic on a puddle-filled street. The only breaks from the film’s monotony are certain melodramatic sequences, such as one in which Kearns, driving around at night, spots cars on the street that...
...Outside of Incubus, you’re also known for your side projects: producing, playing in Time Lapse Consortium, writing the soundtrack for “Flow,” and recently your project “End.>Vacuum.” Are you working on anything new while at Harvard...
Allan and his band are making a habit of defying preconceptions. While the soundtrack to 2008 is all jangling indie guitars and retro '80s bleeping, the Scottish band's much heralded debut album, released on Sept. 8, boasts a mile-high Phil Spector-style "wall of sound" built - as it was by fellow Glaswegians the Jesus and Mary Chain - with brooding, layered guitars and pounding rhythms. Those expansive, girl-group arrangements are the epic backdrops to Glasvegas' brave and brutal lyrics. "Where Spector came from I guess is quite a good place to go if you want to land some...