darkemeralds: Photo of a microphone with caption Read Me a Story. (Podfic)
darkemeralds ([personal profile] darkemeralds) wrote in [community profile] podficmeta 2011-03-03 08:40 pm (UTC)

Your use of music in Ghost, as far as I'm concerned, was perfect.

I would consider myself very musical, but not very literate in popular music. Though I always use music in my (very few so far) recordings, I'm keenly aware of being not very interesting, original, or up to date in my selections.

And yet, for me, the presence of a bit of music to play me into the story, and to play the story off at the end, almost always adds emotional impact, even if I don't know the music, can't begin to understand the lyrics, or don't relate to it musically at all. If the music track is used with a certain amount of restraint (fading out to the speaker, fading back in at the end), I have quite a physical response to it--my anticipation rises at the beginning, and my sense of "The End" satisfaction is rounded out at the end.

And to my ear, a small snippet of the "theme" music to separate sections or tricky POV shifts (as you did in Ghost) is just like a well-chosen horizontal bar or separator in text--it's an unobtrusive but communicative flourish that adds to the story's meaning.

Post a comment in response:

If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

If you are unable to use this captcha for any reason, please contact us by email at support@dreamwidth.org