A SUMMER PLACE
The film student who wishes to study musical scoring in movies should train to recognize and remember motifs (short musical ideas) and themes (longer musical ideas) and notice their variations (changes in instrumentation, pace, rhythm, etc.). More importantly, the student should learn how to connect a musical motif or theme to a character, idea, event, or dramatic change in the plot. This is not as difficult as it may seem, since, in the average film, there are usually only several main themes (associated with the main characters) with several other minor themes. (Epic films are an exception, since they require more music.)
Max Steiner almost invented modern movie scoring, beginning with his famous score for King Kong in 1933, then Gone with the Wind (1939) and countless other films in an era when there were hundreds of studio releases each year and composers had to complete their scoring assignments on short notice.
Sandra Dee was the most popular teen star of the 1950s and early 60s, though she was unable to make the transition to adult roles, especially with the Counter-Culture values of the 1960s, when her teenage innocence was no longer fashionable.
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