Analyzing Music in Film Assignment: Analyzing the music from the first and second (“Sunshine Through the Rain” and “The Peach Orchard”) of eight mythic vignettes in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. This will be shown in class on Wednesday, October 30th. If you cannot be in class you must find it on your own. “Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey through the master’s imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions = Dreams.”
How does he use: Sound-Image Counterpoint, Silence, Nature Sounds, Musical Score? Pacing and Timbre?
Guidelines:
500 – 750 words.
MLA Be sure to give examples from the film.
The outline for this small paper is below.