Importance of Music in Silent Films

Music is important in silent films because it makes or breaks the mood of the setting or the entire film itself. If you have an intesnse scene with serious or darker music, its more likely to get the point across than if you had the same scene and chose a techno fast pace song. The music talks even when the actors say nothing, because we interpert it in our own way- the way we want to. Sometimes i'll mute television shows or a movie and play music and see hows it different with a certain song. If theres a happy fun scene, ill put on really upbeat music to see if it would still go along in that act and then i'll change it to some emo sounding music and see how that fits. I think about music in scences alot because i've always thought it would be cool to be that person who finds music for specific scenes in movies, or even commercials.