Discuss the music of the film (orchestral, electronic, pop songs). Highlight and discuss particular scenes in which you think the music played a significant role. Talk about why you think this score is important to the history of film music. Talk about how this score compares or contrasts to other scores written around the same time or other scores that you know of from this composer.
Your summary should be 300 to 500 words. Select one film from the following list:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Far and Away
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Home Alone
Hook
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Schindler’s List
Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back
Superman (1978)
