Actually , BGM is the lifeline of the movie. Some of the greatest movies - both in India & around the world have had the best scores to go with them. The greatness of a Movie Director & Music composer lie in bringing out the best of each other to give a sum that is greater than the individual. for eg, a Giant Lizard is terrorizing a city.. you can give great dramatic music to this scene , but there is only a limit to it.. Please watch some movies for which Ennio Morricone has given the score. There are scenes which have tremendous impact - strangely though, there won't be a dialog or actiion going on.. just the characters pondering or someone reflecting at himself..!! ARR is a master at both.. he should continue to give BGMs. I've listened to just ARR BGM;s for several hours.. personally though, I wish he gives more 'theme' based music , rather than using the songs as BGM pieces. stand out example : The theme of the boy (Rythm).
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:30 AM, V S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I want to understand the connection between songs in a film as against > BGM of a film. Does it, and how does it help in improving the quality of > the music and/ or the BGM if the same person composes songs as well as > BGM, or if they are composed by different persons? > > Normally, I think, songs-directors are quite busy and a song has to > sound unique, different from his and others' other songs, songs should > have instruments and style in tune with the time and place of the movie, > the lyrics should reflect the psychological profile and social > background/ religion/ caste/ maturity/ education of the character > singing them on the screen, so songs in a film, I think, should be > requiring more efforts, and as they also get sold to public, this > commercial angle also requires more efforts to be put in the songs to > make people shell out money. > > However, BGMs could be general. Human brains are not so much attuned to > find similarities between BGMs of two different films, the reason could > be that BGMs are sadly not sold nor made available to public so almost > all of us happen to get to hear them only once or twice when we see the > film and then we tend to forget them. Another drawback could be lack of > lyrics in BGM. Lyrics in a song act as place marker, an aid to remember > and repeat music, so when we memorize the lyrics, the song of those > lyrics gets etched in our brain, but as there are no lyrics in BGM, it > is mostly hard to memorize the BGM. > > Thus, BGM could be general. A BGM director can even prepare a BGM bank > that he can keep on giving them to different films and people would mind. > > So, I think songs and BGMs are quite different area, having quite > different requirement. Then, how would it help when a songs-master > creates BGM or when a BGM-master creates song. > > In fact, I think a songs-master is more busy so he might not pay more > attention in creating the BGM for the film so it might reduce the > quality of the BGM if a songs-master creates them. Or, a songs-master > might tend to create BGMs as "lyrics-less songs", that is, in > independent, individual patches like he was creating a song for a > situation but just didn't add lyrics to them. > > I want to know whether you think ARR should concentrate on creating > songs and should leave BGMs to be developed by others, :-) even though > we love BGMs or any piece of created by our man? > > -- > Rawat > > > -- Cheers, Pradeepan. "All you need to do is, decide what to do with the time that is given to you !"
