Understanding music composition and synergy with themes.

Music, is a hard factor towards making a scene in any film depending on genre more impact full and purposeful, but doing so correctly is a challenge in of itself, as poor choice of music can also diminish the effects and or purpose of a scene.

A great example of music composition and implementation in my genre of horror would be the recently developed "All quiet on the Western front" where even though the main theme of the film is thriller, it delves into horror within the aspect of the horrors of war on the western front in 1918.

It is beautifully well developed, for example I will use "Remains" made by Volker Bertelmann to explain; Using the scene in mind, we view the freshly recruited Germans being marched towards the battlefield from their headquarters, singing, cheering and pridefully marching as their naivety is boldly and potently displayed to the audience, and to this you'd expect cheerful and jovial music. But instead you get this what I can only describe as a dreadnought of a drop, where with the simple addition of the soundtrack completely changes our perspective, instead of seeing jovial-ness were filled with a sense of dread and horror as we the audience hearing this non diagetic music, understand that something is wrong.

Giving our senses an understanding that something isn't right, and even though there is nothing visibly disturbing or outright wrong, making this a beautiful example of how music changes a scene for different themes and understandings, and in this instance it was done perfectly.