One of the biggest factor in a film is the use of music and sound. Give a film to much music or make it too loud, and it begins to get on peoples nerves, don’t give a film any or make it too silent and the film will feel dry and un-entertaining. I was watching a DVD of Cowboy Bebop and found a good example of the use of music (see above). The song ‘Rain’ plays from the beginning and runs parallel with what’s on screen as an organ is playing in the song and the area on screen is that of a cathedral and plays at just the right volume to stay in the viewers mind while not distracting the viewer from what’s being said between the people on screen. At 2:20 minutes in the action begins and all the music is drowned out and is instead replaced with just the sound effects of gunfire and explosions, at 4:33 minutes Spike is thrown out the stained glass of the cathedral as he throws a grenade in blowing up a man he once was partners with in crime, It is here that the song ‘Green bird’ starts playing as he is Vicious is killed, Spike is falling to the ground bleeding everywhere and flash backs are being viewed of when he and Vicious were both in crime together making this use of music contrapuntal.