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Effect Of Music On Bird Migration Essay

¶ … Music Birds and Migration

Music has been utilized in various mediums throughout history. In church, for example, music is meant to elevate one's emotions and bring him or her "closer to God." In film, more recently, music has been utilized to evoke certain emotions as well, and to keep the audience interested in the subject at hand. In horror movies, for example, when there is a crescendo, it is relatively certain that something bad may happen. Music, thus, can be happy or sad, and evoke a multitude of other emotions if utilized properly. This paper will thus examine the effect of music in a YouTube video on winged migration.

In this particular video, the audience is shown, in documentary format, the migration of birds from various points-of-view. The video starts with very classical, pleasing music, and shows birds in the water, flying, bathing,...

For each of these scenes, the film utilizes a certain kind a music. For the flying part, for example, which is perhaps the most majestic, the music is flowing in an ever-increasing crescendo, which almost brings the audience to an elated level -- in other words, one feels wonder and joy at seeing the birds.
In the same scene, with the sound off, though the filmography is excellent, one does not feel the same way, which is very interesting. Yes, it is true that the same images are shown, but the fact is that without the music one simply cannot get the same feeling of seeing how majestic the birds are flying over the trees.

When the audience is shown, for example and to provide further justification for how music is so powerful, at the 29th minute in the movie, the wheat fields, with the combine harvesters driving up the hill, the music…

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The film presented on the YouTube video is excellent in its filmography, not only for the beautiful images it presents, but also for the topic that it examines. However, without the music, this would be a movie focused on birds and the sounds they make, and would not keep a viewer's interest. Due to the music, the film becomes a journey for the audience, which can take them almost as far as the birds can fly and can make one feel as if he or she is soaring with them, feeling the wind with them, or the sun, and finally feeling everything that the movie means to portray which is, in fact, the whole scope of music.

"The Travelling Birds/Winged Migration." (2011). YouTube. Retrieved September 9, 2011, from <http://youtu.be/zmPjjp72J5o>.

Munger, D. (2008). "Even music played before or after a film is shown to have an effect on our perception or emotion." Cognitive Daily. Retrieved September 9, 2011, from <http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/even_music_played_before_or_af.php>.
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