Musicality

The music in audiovisuals is to me very important. High aesthetic value. A scene can look very different with different music (even if all of it is is apparently appropriate), even to the point of being disliked just because the wrong music has been chosen.

Many years ago I had an assigment to produce a photo sequence and it was disliked very much by numerous instructors, it was just disastrous apparently. Then what I did was select other song for the final review. They thought I had changed a lot of things about it and they liked the video a lot more, they couldn't notice what had been changed.

Would Quentin Tarantino movies had been the same if he had not been very careful with the selection of the songs for his movies even if other alternative songs carried the same mood? I don't think so. They have an extra meaning within the visuals. And the visuals have an extra meaning within the music.

Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
song by David Bowie