Dear LPG,

I enjoy reading your web posts because of the really unusual subjects that your writers find to write about, and I think that I recently found something that fits the bill when it comes to unusual.

Amongst some of my other favourite things to do, watching films comes quite high on the list and as has been mentioned in your pages YouTube is the place to go to for seeing unusual clips.  I was having an online browse the other day and found something that I have not really ever considered before.

Do you know just how much the music used with any video can change your sensitivity to what you are seeing?  I didn’t really mean to but found myself reading quite a lot of information on the subject and then it occurred that I should pass that nugget of knowledge on to my LPG peers.

The one thing that I learnt from looking at the videos is that you don’t have to be a scientist to see, I mean hear, the difference and when I also checked out some examples of how it works I was quite surprised that something film makers have known for so long has only just occurred to me.  The other thing that ran through my thoughts is how different it must be for a person who is not able to hear the music when they see a bit of film. 

I have left some of the videos that I found together with some information on the subject and I have asked LPG to pass on my findings so that readers can make up your own minds.

SW Downham.

LPG has added some of SW’s video examples for readers to see…

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Below are two videos of the same advert with different music…

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And finally, a little about the science behind it all

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