300 words - Music Film Summary

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)