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Also careless use of background score can be a very dangerous tool in driving a viewer's expectations into a very wrong direction other than what is intended by the director. A case in point was when "COMPANY" was released lot of Distributors called me and said people love the 1st half and were fully disappointed with the 2nd half as they expected fight sequences and violent action. I wondered why they expected action when I didn't indicate that at all anywhere in my promos etc. It took me a while to figure out that the culprit could be the background score in the interval scene. When Chandu is warning Mallik "Tu aur tere company KHALLAS" the entire build up of the treatment of the scene through music was to build up their emotions through use of very highly aggressive orchestral raise culminating in the interval card which thereby planted in the audience's mind that the battle lines are drawn and now it's only going to be battles.
So throughout the interval they would have been eagerly awaiting some highly aggressive fights to take place which didn't happen. On the other hand if I treated the entire interval sequence with a pathos inducing sad flute making the audience feel sad that Chandu and Mallik are parting with each other they would not have expected action.
Background music can either enhance the existing emotion visually seen in the scene or it can highlight the emotion of one specific character in the scene as per his emotional response to a given happening or it can be used to direct the viewers mind to respond to the scenes content in a certain very specific way other than seemingly what is happening and also sometimes it can be used to make a damn big deal about something which in reality amounts to nothing.

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