 Drama: October 12, 2011 Issue [#4661] |
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This week: When The Music Swells... Edited by: Fyn-elf  
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“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”
~~~ Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr
“The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.”~~~ Clark Moustakas
"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language."~~~John Milius
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You are walking at night down a lonely track through the hills. Tall, long limbed trees hang their branches over either side of the road, hemmed in by uneven and ancient stone fences. The moon, fat and full rises on the horizon and starts play hide and seek amongst a gathering scatter of clouds.
Now music begins to play. Ah! But what kind? What comes to mind first, probably, is intense, theatrical and swelling music that we all have come to associate with 'Trouble!" The bad guy is going to leap out from behind a tree, come galloping down the road or some other impending doom-ridden event is about to occur.
Wait. A sprinkling of sound, like crystal wind chimes echos. Or a flute trills, or maybe, a breeze scatters leaves and they twirl in the road. Still threatening? No, probably not. Now one expects a magical something-- an autumn faery comes to greet a lover, your mission to track down the love of your life is about to come to fruition.
Hang on a second....the music is a trio of violins, sweet and haunting, joined by soft tones of a pan flute. What is flying overhead with such wings of slivered light?
When we watch a play or go to the movies, words and scenery are enhanced by the audible and we are keyed in to expect certain happenings by the music alone.
When writing, we need to substitute the audible of the theater with written audio clues to make the situation every bit as immediate and of the moment. We need to hear the leaves rustling in the breeze or under the feet of the approaching whatever...we need to hear the twap-flap, that heavy sound of the owl's wings or the creaking of the massive oak's branches in the wind.
Sound, whether actually headr or written to tickle our silent hearing does much to add to the drama of a moment; we must always remember to use descriptions to add to the visual and audio of our characters and by extension; our readers! |
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atwhatcost wrote:We may remember, but what have we done with that memory? I was taught how what people did after World War I caused World War II. Are we not doing the same thing in the middle east today? Leaving those people to fend for themselves too soon? They don't need to wait for their little Adolph to grow up. The monsters are already men. They will feel the monster's wrath today. We will feel it again within the next ten years. I remember, and I fear the future we are creating today.
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