Meaning of music in films

In the classic scene in (The Notebook), Allie finds out that Noah did write her everyday for a year until giving up. She says "I waited for 7 years and its too late now". He replies with his famous lines " It wasn't over, it still isn't over", and grabs her a kisses the love of his life.

I chose the song "She will be Loved" by Maroon 5 to play when this scene happens. The song will be hushed when the actors are talking and the song with go into full volume when he grabs her at the chorus. "She will be loved" is sung over the time they kiss. I think this is a good song to provide emotion because it's lyrics state how to Noah feels about Allie. " I don't mind spending everyday, out on your porch in the pouring rain". Is basically stating how much Noah cares for her and has waited for her to come. He would do anything for his love. At the very end of the song, it says "Don't try so hard to say goodbye". Which means in this film that Allie has been trying to say goodbye to Noah for 7 years and she finds herself back in his arms still trying to say goodbye.

Role of Teenagers in Film

I chose the movie "Mean Girls"  (2004). It depicts the subgroups within a typical high school and reflects on what teenagers are like, which creates a certin reality about each subgroup. For example, In the scene where Janice creates a map of the different cliques of the school, we get a glipse of how each clique acts and what they look like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRteokw7m80

This depiction does not fit my personal reality of highschool and teenagers. Yes, in highschool there are cliques but not as bad as "the plastics" or "unfriendly black hotties". My reality is three classes of people, popular, unpopular and the "everybody's friend".

Hollywood Budgets

1. Finding a good enough story and getting the rights to make the film, sometimes including substantial amount of counter offering and negations.

2. After the rights to the story have been made, the director needs to find a fit screenwriter to translate the book to a working script.

3.Once a script has been approved all the essential people must be hired to do the project such as, editor,producer,make up and costume, as well as actors and many, many more people.

4. After all people have been hired, Location needs to be picked, which could either be on a sound stage or in a outside location. '

5. Once the actors are done shooting scenes, the film is far from finished and still needs editing, music added in and such.

6. After the post-production is done, money needs to be set out for advertising and getting the movie into the public eye. Including trailers and interviews with the cast.