Wednesday, 19 June, 2013
Category: Television » Theme Songs
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Most people don’t pay attention to news theme music consciously. But unconsciously it does register. On an unconscious level the theme music communicates a lot about the newscast that it introduces. Compositions heavy on synthesizers tend to remind us of tabloidy and sensational stories, while big orchestras remind us of serious and substantive journalism. So even though the average viewer might find it so unimportant that it goes by unnoticed, network news executives spend tons of time and money on getting it ‘just right’.
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