So I went to the website hillmancurtis.com and found a video by a music video creator named Mark Romanek.
The wonderful thing about this video is that I had NO idea how much music means to filming until I watched it. As Mark explained, music is used to generate a fake moment by creating emotions within the viewer to make the scene believable. What a great point. In all of the best movies, be they romance, horror, or suspense, music is what makes the moment. On mute, the rain kiss on the movie The Notebook would be pretty boring. On mute, no one would jump at the sight of the boy ghost that walks down the hall in The Sixth Sense.
Mark Romanek's philosophy in all of his creations is this: leave each creation open-ended for further analysis by the viewer. If the audience already has all the answers to what the video is really portraying, they will not open their minds and try to interpret the piece. Even that little bit of interpretation allows creativity to flow. The key point, as stated by Mark, is to "emotionally engage people" in what they are watching. That is when the work means something more than a string of great shots.
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