Soundtrack

           Different Aspects of Soundtrack

Scoring:

• Scoring refers to the original music that accompanies a film, whereas a soundtrack is generally used to refer to the selection of recorded songs that accompanies a film.
• The score is music that is tailor made for a film, and is usually written by a composer who is specifically contracted for the production. The purpose of this original composition is to underscore and accentuate the delivery of a scene’s mood and the film’s emotion.

Incidental Music:

• Incidental music is often background music, and is intended to add atmosphere to the action. It may take the form of something as simple as a low, ominous tone suggesting an impending startling event or to enhance the depiction of a story-advancing sequence.

Themes and stings:

• “Stings” are musical cues that come in sharply and dramatically, often played just after an actor deliveres a line indicating a new turn in the story line.
• A theme is music that is always played when a program or film or character in a series comes on.

Ambient Sound:

• Ambient sound is basically just background noise. The buzz of traffic, the sound of rain.
• Its main purpose is to provide consistent and natural background noise for dialogue and sound effects, resulting in a realistic sound mix. Without ambient sound, a scene can often feel 'dead' or uncanny, and the dialogue can sound unrealistic or out of place, as if the air has been sucked out of a room.