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I read chapter 11 The Disney Sounds and found it very interesting. When thinking of Walt Disney, the first thing that comes to mind is animation but Disney thought of everything when creating his films. I never knew that Walt Disney had his own music created by musicians he hired from all over the country. Disney envisioned specific music being played for his films. He knew from watching movies that sometimes music created the perfect mood and feeling for an audience more than any animation ever could. In order to create the perfect mood for his pictures, Disney knew he had to have music created specifically for his films. Disney would hire musicians and music writers and have them work closely together with directors to plan out entire pictures before any animator began a scene. I would have never thought that creating music for these films would have been such an intricate process but after seeing how bar sheets and such were used I was surprised. Musicians and directors would work together to create music and animations and then eventually work them into falling in sync with each other. The music was expected to fall into beat with the movement of the characters. Exposure sheets and action notes were put together in long processes in order to make this work. It's amazing how something so important and complex had never even occurred to me as playing a major role in animation!! This is a video of another one of my favorites which so happens to have a lot to do with this chapter. Fantasia's music is referred to in the book as "free tempo" (p. 293) meaning it did not adhere to a strict beat as most other films did.

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