MUSIC IN MOVIES ELEVATES EMOTIONS

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Music has always been an essential part of the human existence and has several genres that cuts across different cultures and traditional backgrounds, music is used in different ways to catch the attention of audiences and to appeal or enhance their emotions. At the beginning, I really did not use to dwell much on the use of musics in a movie except if the movie was a musical one like sound of music, high school musicals and so on. But some year back, a movie director and producer used a particular song in most of her movies published on YouTube and this stole the hearts of many people to watching and looking forward to her movies. Maybe that was her strategy to grow but it worked in bringing out the emotional and endearing aspects of people.

Ruth Kadiri is a great Nigerian movie producer and actress in Nigeria that dwell on producing indigenous Nigerian movies with international genres. When we watch most of her movies , there is a particular song that comes up at most emotion love scenes it goes thus

"I realize
you the one
I have been waiting for,
you are my sunshine
On a cloudy day
I realize
You're the one
I've been waiting for
You are my sunshine
On a cloudy day
When the sun comes down
I'll be here waiting for you
Do you know what you mean to me

This has changed my perspective to musics in a movie because I always enjoy when there are not too much songs and distractions from the main stuff. Although , the areas where I have been enjoying music in movies has to be in traditional Yoruba movies where indigenous language is used. It helps me to connect with my roots and also understand that there are diverse languages that I can learn just by listening to them in movies. For instance, proper Yoruba movies are always laced with the use of oriki, ijinle, Fuji, juju, incantations, apala and so on all rooted in deep cultural narratives.

Still speaking about Yoruba movies, I remember when we would always learn the music in such Yoruba indigenous movies and they would stick in our brains, I am sure that Yoruba people on this platform will be able to relate. I remember a horror Yoruba movie will watched named "koto ayeda", this was a very scary movie especially to you children but remarkably the scary songs sang to promote the emotions and the artistic and horrific nature of the movie stucked in our brains even till now. Also was this Yoruba movie that told the story of the war that happens amongst the ilorin people titled "Afonja", till now I can still remember the chanting of the world songs the soldier sang on their way to battle.

So for me music is an important aspect of movies because recently, I washed an interview where a popular actress and producer in Nigeria called Bimbo Ademoye narrated how she made a movie and she had to look for a good song writer to write a song that would capture the essence of the entire movie. This was when I actually realized that produce as do not joke with the kind of musics they play in their movies. The brilliantly navigate through the use of musicals and the use of music in different scenes all in the bead to enhance the emotions of their viewers also subscribers.

In conclusion, as much as I love musics and want them in movies I believe that producers can do better in using songs that we can relate to and not just songs that sings about the movie directly and tells us the story straight away. I also prefer heightened musicals that would help the viewers to detect the kind of emotions the producer once us to feel as a person.

This is a part of my entry for the initiative of the #JuneinLeo prompt as organized by the @leogrowth team.

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