Memorability

Shocking News: Self-proclaimed “film-music fanatic” knows film scores

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Some days ago my father stumbled upon a “guess the movie soundtrack” YouTube video.

In short, it’s a simple compilation full of all kinds of different themes and soundtracks from mostly famous (as well as some not-so-famous) movies. Every piece of music plays for 15 seconds—so you have some time to guess the movie it’s from—until it reveals the answer.

Anyway.

We just went with it and played the quiz, testing our movie theme knowledge.

Since I’m very much into film music and film composing, I knew most, if not all, of the soundtracks (at least for the movies I’ve actually seen or even heard about).

But not only that.

The other family members who played along also knew quite some soundtracks. Often as fast as only hearing it for a second or two.

Which goes to show you the power of creating something unique, memorable, and, often-times, emotional. Even with limited resources and/or many limitations (after all, every piece of music you hear only consists of 12 different building blocks called “notes”).

Luckily for you, the English language has 26 letters, more than double the amount of notes in western music.

Know I’m no mathematician, but it sounds like you can do a whole lot more with writing than music (and that’s coming from a film score fanatic and hobby film composer).

The best way to get started honing your (persuasive) writing abilities?

Email Valhalla.

Check it out here: https://alexvandromme.com/valhalla


A hidden secret to make your customers do the stuff you want

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I’m a big movie guy.

Well, I’m a big a lot of stuff guy. But for the sake of today’s email, it’s movies.

(Stick with me for a moment, it’ll all make sense in a second why I’m talking about movies)

One of my (and almost everyone else’s) favorite movie franchises is Pirates of the Caribbean. There’s a lot of good (and bad) to be said about it. Many of which has already been said by other people I won’t bother you with today.

But I want to talk about something else.

Something not many people often talk about.

And that’s the quotability of the dialogue.

See, we all know famous lines of movies that get quoted a lot. Think of lines such as “I am your father”, “I’ll be back”, or You shall not pass”.

All great lines and great scenes.

But Pirates has it’s own unique trick to create this quotable dialogue.

You might remember quotes such as “Why is the rum gone?”, “This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow”, and many more.

And there’s a huge difference here.

While some scenes were definitely great, most of them weren’t. They’re just average scenes with average dialogue.

So why are they so quotable?

Because the characters themselves often quote others or repeat their own dialogue. And they use the same lines in multiple settings, under multiple different conditions, often with different outcomes and with different emotions to them.

Simply said.

Pirates uses a lot of repetition to make you remember certain lines of dialogue, almost making a game out of it.

This makes the dialogue immediately quotable because, well, the movie shows you how quotable it is.

So getting back to what this has to do with you.

If you want people to pick up a certain habit, if you want them to do something, if you want them to remember something, then show them how to do it, when/where they can do it, and most importantly, repeat yourself often.

I dive deeper into this topic in Product Creation Made Easy where I show you how you can create your products in such a way that ensures people will take action and actually do the stuff you tell them to do, remember the stuff you teach them, and even repeat what you said to others—at which point they’re basically doing your marketing for you.

If you want to learn more about that, then check out Product Creation Made Easy here: https://alexvandromme.com/pcme