Silent Films (1891)
Silent films were first made in and around 1891 during the Victorian Era, these were the first of its kind and this genre was quite popular until around 1927 when the first talkative film also known as “talkie” film was made.
Silent films would usually consist of either someone playing a vinyl or you would have a pianist playing a piano during the fils, however some larger cities such as London and Manchester would have a big orchestra at the ready to give that dramatic effect.
Jazz (1930)
During these Jazzy times the music was usually racially dividing as there were “white Jazz” and “black Jazz” this caused people in cinemas to only go and associate with the film that was aimed towards their race.
White Jazz usually involved strings or synthetic instruments, this usually represented fun, whereas Black Jazz would usually represent an immoral character or a shady character, this would be represented with trumpets and saxophones.
Musicals (1965)
Some say musicals where revived by films such as “sound of music” as it is well loved even till this day.
Musicals were literally films that had songs thought the film either expressing feelings or important landmark events, films that present these things today are films such as Aladdin and the remake of “Mary Poppins”.
Synths (1970)
During this time period synth music started to become popular and was used in one iconic move and that is “star wars”. From this point onwards in the industry music was changed forever as it showed how much a synth these tune can influence a film.
Heavy Bass (2014)
6 years ago trap and grime began to gain more attention and with these was heavy use of bass, weather it be a bass guitar or a computer generated sound. This rose because in America, gang music was big and the term ‘Trap’ came from the phrase ‘Trap House’.
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