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Film score

Film score is like the music that plays in the background of a movie to make it more exciting, sad or scary. It helps to make us feel different emotions while we watch the movie. Just like when we watch a superhero movie, the music playing in the background makes us feel like we are also the superhero and we get excited.

A film score is made up of many different sounds, like the sounds of instruments playing together or just a single instrument playing all by itself. The sounds are put together in ways that make us feel different emotions. For example, slow music with a piano might make us feel sad, while fast music with drums might make us feel scared or excited.

The composer of a film score is like a chef that bakes a cake. They decide which ingredients or sounds to use in the score, and how to bake them together to create a tasty or emotional experience. And just like how we might like some cakes and not others, some people might like certain film scores and not others.
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