MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT OF MEDIA ADS

• Main Author: Chernyshov Alexander V.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mediamusic, LLC 2015-01-01
• Series: Mediamuzyka
• Subjects: Music design; advertising; brand; product placement; infomercial; commercial; jingle; promo; Spiegel
• Online Access: http://mediamusic-journal.com/Issues/4_1.html

The music-compositional principles of commercial and political advertising and also the self-promotion of electronic media (radio, television, Internet) are considered in this mediatext: from the elementary beeps, symbolic functions, emblems/logos and musical brands to the sound engineering technology to underscore the product's name and the complex synthesis between music and intra movements and color-light design of frames. Simultaneously examines, how the musical arrangement of ethereal advertising is involved in creation the emotional drama or bravado which reach the level of explicit or associative counterpoint 'music with the advertised object or subject' and which extend to expression of cultural image of all the broadcast channel. The article explores the works of the next genres like infomercial, teleshopping, film-ad, and autonomous commercials that have been produced in European countries or USA.