For this project I plan to research the effect of background music in film and television shows. The intent of background music is to make specific scenes more meaningful, more emotional. My research is on how effective the practice of adding background music to a scene actually is. I will consider questions about how effective a scene would be without background music, how effective a scene would be with background music completely unfitting of the emotion of the scene, how background music is chosen, and the origins of this practice.  In an ideal world, I would interview famous film producers, the producers of Jackass, and the pioneer of this practice. In a less ideal world, I would use sources such as databases from Baruch, scholarly articles from Google searches, and books from the library. My first step in the research process will be to search for scholarly article on Google. I am choosing to do this first because I am already somewhat familiar with this aspect of Google from doing this practice last year in English for a research paper. Next I would search the Baruch databases through the library. This is especially convenient because not only are databases brimming with information, they are also extremely credible. After this, I will use the old-school methodology of research, books from the library. I will search key words into the library book database and choose books that I feel are helpful and relevant to my topic.

Source 1:

Film score : the view from the podium-Book

Source 2:

Cape Fear: Remaking a film
score-Scholary Article