Cradle Will Rock Soundtrack (Page 4)

The camera surveys the scene once again and when it returns he is again composing on an 'air piano'. This is a mix of both fidelity and space at once because the last thing the audience is expecting to see is a real piano, while at the same time, the music goes from clearly in his head to a point in which the audience isn't quite sure where it is coming from and then back. The mix is executed to perfection, and provides for the most memorable scene of the film. The use of music in Cradle Will Rock helps back a main point of Bordwell and Thompson, "that filmmakers often use sound quite unrealisticly, in order to shift our attention to what is narratively or visually important".

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