{"id":23717,"date":"2013-03-06T10:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=23717"},"modified":"2013-03-06T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:37:04","slug":"giacchino-leading-the-film-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/03\/giacchino-leading-the-film-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Giacchino: Leading The Film Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23720\" title=\"Giacchino030613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Giacchino030613.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to composer <strong>Michael Giacchino<\/strong>, if a composer is doing his job properly, the music will keep the audience riveted to the movie.<\/p>\n<p>The composer&#8217;s job is to work on the emotions of the audience watching the movie.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Giacchino explained how his music helps to get across what <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong> wants the audience to feel, &#8220;&#8230;so that you as an audience are right there, following the story, every step of the way. Everything that J.J. wants you to feel and follow; I&#8217;m there to help kinda yank you through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And yes, you can call that manipulation, it is! All of it&#8230;Any film is manipulation, really. None of this is real. So anyone who says, &#8216;you were manipulating me!&#8217; Well, no shit, of course we were manipulating you, that&#8217;s why you go to the movies &#8211; to be manipulated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Giacchino explained the opening scene of<em> Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>, and why the movie begins in a hospital. &#8220;The opening of the film is quite different from what you would expect from the opening, I think, of a <em>Star Trek<\/em> film,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It starts off in the hospital and you&#8217;re kind of like \u2014 &#8216;wait, am I in the right theater? What is this? Where the heck am I?&#8217; And that&#8217;s intentional. We really wanted to give the audience a distance from the characters. Not speak too plainly about what it is that they&#8217;re doing, what&#8217;s going on, the music isn&#8217;t commenting too much about what&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the idea was to get across that \u2014 what you see in front of you, is what you see in front of you, but there&#8217;s something much bigger going on behind the scenes. And what is that? I don&#8217;t know yet. We don&#8217;t know. But it&#8217;s growing, and it&#8217;s evolving, in a way in which <em>Star Trek<\/em> music really traditionally doesn&#8217;t really do. It&#8217;s a slightly different way to approach it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em> opens in theaters on May 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to composer Michael Giacchino, if a composer is doing his job properly, the music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689],"tags":[2643],"class_list":["post-23717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-giacchino"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xii\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23723,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions\/23723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}