Animation takes a new field position as one public art together with development of multi-media video images in the modern society. As prominence of the importance of animation emerges like this, music, which is an element of composition of animation...
Animation takes a new field position as one public art together with development of multi-media video images in the modern society. As prominence of the importance of animation emerges like this, music, which is an element of composition of animation is also being recognized as important.
This study has researched and analyzed the art works of Powell. (1963) John Powell is one of musicians, who are working actively in the USA, and is a composer who made a new style of animation and movie music and expanded sound effect as one music language. In this thesis, musical characteristics of animation of John Powell were found out by analyzing his important music of <Happy Feet> and <(Ice Age 2: The Meltdown)>.
As research method, first of all, musical background and trends of his art works were examined through the entire life and art works of John Powell. In his art works, correlation between video images and music was analyzed and tried to find out how did he express timbre, mood and motion of musical instruments in music.
As the result of the research, musical characteristics of John Powell was that mood and motion of animation were expressed through timbre and arrangement so that it can approach to the story familiar and friendly. He played in the conforming tone of musical instrument in order to express the background, changed lyrics of music spectators knew and re-arranged into the fast modern music. In addition, he emphasized a sense of rhythm a lot in order to express motions.
Through this study, it was found out that John Powell's music leads the mood of animation and played a role to make spectators to immerse into animation further by making the situations of the story more excited. Systematic and continuous research shall be carried out in the future for the development of animation music and production of more effective music.