Rather interesting. I watched a bit of the video and indeed, the Flatted Fifth is recognisable as 'horror music' once you pay attention to it. I also get it about the music guiding emotion in a horror film. Once we got a feature SAP(secondary audio programming) for television back in the early 80s, my mum told us to do an experiment. Turn on the Spanish language SAP and then watch the same movie. It was hilarious. Being a non Spanish speaking person it was about like watching the old overdubbed chop sockey Chinese Kung Fu movies from the early 70s. It mostly sounded a like a lot of; I will get you for this! sort of gibberish. It completely changed the mood of the film.
When we were little she told us the same thing about the musical scoring. If the movie got too intense just mute it for a minute and things wouldn't seem so scary. I have watched a few of these paranormal shows and they all employ the same technique. Cue up a loud section of 'scare music' and then quickly go to commercial break. Upon returning you go through two to four minutes of the exact same video footage leading up to the scare moment and then an inevitable let down moment when it is revealed the crew dropped a camera or piece of video gear or some event happened. In a half hour show you will see about a third of the video is repeated over and over. Some of these shows try to keep it a little more real than others but some of it is downright silly.
Good information about the music. I have come to wish I would have paid more attention to it growing up. I don't 'get' music like a lot of people do. Everyone typically has a quirky ability. My wife says mine is a somewhat photographic memory. At times I can see a 'snapshot' of something that happened or something I was reading forty plus years ago. Particularly from reading. At times it is almost like I am looking at the page of the book I was reading all those years ago. I always just chalked it up to something that really interested me at the time and I somehow filed it away for future reference. On the other hand, I can/could go from one room to the next and draw a complete blank about what I was going to do when I got there. The wifely unit refers to that as selective hearing/memory, etc.
When we were little she told us the same thing about the musical scoring. If the movie got too intense just mute it for a minute and things wouldn't seem so scary. I have watched a few of these paranormal shows and they all employ the same technique. Cue up a loud section of 'scare music' and then quickly go to commercial break. Upon returning you go through two to four minutes of the exact same video footage leading up to the scare moment and then an inevitable let down moment when it is revealed the crew dropped a camera or piece of video gear or some event happened. In a half hour show you will see about a third of the video is repeated over and over. Some of these shows try to keep it a little more real than others but some of it is downright silly.
Good information about the music. I have come to wish I would have paid more attention to it growing up. I don't 'get' music like a lot of people do. Everyone typically has a quirky ability. My wife says mine is a somewhat photographic memory. At times I can see a 'snapshot' of something that happened or something I was reading forty plus years ago. Particularly from reading. At times it is almost like I am looking at the page of the book I was reading all those years ago. I always just chalked it up to something that really interested me at the time and I somehow filed it away for future reference. On the other hand, I can/could go from one room to the next and draw a complete blank about what I was going to do when I got there. The wifely unit refers to that as selective hearing/memory, etc.
