h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello good fishwife (and that's entirely accurate here)

So here we are in work with a gulf between for the first time in many moons. But to be honest it is ok cos we can talk through this wonderful invention that is H2G2. So kudos to this whole system , and I hope it will still all be ok after the bbc faffs about with it.

So today my main theme is my SA. Having thought briefly about it on the bus, I can see that I let the subject, and my vague couching (?) of it confuse and overwhelm me. I'm going to make some notes this shift, and talk to you about it as well, and I hope that by the end of the day I'll have a clearer idea of what I'm writing about, and then I can type them up, and send them to Lisa with an explanatory note about this summer's fresh hell.

So, firstly. I always find the best place to start formulating an SA plan is to ask questions of your area, in order to both start on the road to answers, and to find out just what interests you. So here are some of mine thus far.

1) Whay do people chose the music they do for their work?
2)How does the story/history of the song/artist affect what we're watching? Does it at all?
3)Are lyrics dialogue/monologue in the context of a soundtrack? Certainly they are in both Moulin Rouge and Dennis Potter. But in Moulin Rogue, at least, the songs are almost completely shorn of their ariginal context and meaning, through the means of both rerecording and rewriting. The lip-synching in Potter has a very different effect, I should say. I'll have to watch Lipstick again, and get hold of Detective. I've got the screenplay, but I doubt it hass all the songs listed, and anyway, far easier to get the show that to start looking for all the songs in it individually. That would be a long and pointless torture. Also, mum and dad have the soundtrack for Pennies, but I've neither seen it nor read the screenplay.
Interestingly, the screenplay for Lipstick has some differences between the music it lists and the music actually used. I'll get back to you on this at a later time.
4) How far is our reaction to the music based solely on it's lyrics? Is it not the music itself that affects our emotional reaction? HOw does this interact with ahet we're seeing? In cases of seeming incongruity, what is the director/writer aiming for with this juxtaposition? Is all use of music a fundamental juxtaposition? I.E is a soundtrack an alien idea, or do we all soundtrack our lives anyway? (By the way, yes, at least in some cases.)

For now, as I have to switch PCs, that's all. Don't expect silence though.

Fatty