How Soundtracks Shape Our Perception of Movies (and Reality)

What happens when you go beyond the visuals

Pavle Marinkovic
The Riff
Published in
4 min readMay 10, 2024

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What should you do when you get scared watching a horror movie?

You turn the volume down.

This simple action takes out all the emotion of the scene. Suddenly, the terrifying villain becomes just a guy in a mask who probably just needs a…

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Pavle Marinkovic
The Riff

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