31-437: (Redirected from VR5 ) VR5 or variations thereof may refer to: VR.5 , American science-fiction television series VR5 engine , a family of petroleum fuelled Internal combustion engines VRC-30 (formerly VR-5), a United States Navy Fleet Logistics Support squadron [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
62-404: A more dark thriller would compose of hard rock or urban music . In 1908, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first music specifically for use in a motion picture (L'assasinat du duc de Guise), and releasing recordings of songs used in films became prevalent in the 1930s. Henry Mancini , who won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for his soundtrack to Peter Gunn , was the first composer to have
93-544: A motion picture or television soundtrack. Many top-charting songs were featured or released on a film or television soundtrack album. Nowadays, the term "soundtrack" sort of subsided. It now mostly commonly refers to instrumental background music used in that media. Popular songs featured in a film or television series are instead highlighted and referenced in the credits, not a part of a "soundtrack". In advertisements or store listings, soundtrack albums are sometimes confused with original cast albums . These are albums made with
124-409: A movie featuring the cast and crew of VR.5 , but the project was dropped after the scripting stage. Episodes of VR.5 were released on VHS in 2000 by Rhino Home Video . Soundtrack album A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show . The first such album to be commercially released
155-672: A musical artist), and the songs and the soundtrack itself can also be on music charts, and win musical awards. By convention, a soundtrack record can contain any kind of music including music "inspired by" but not actually appearing in the movie; the score contains only music by the original film's composers. Contemporaneously, a soundtrack can go against normality, (most typically used in popular culture franchises) and contains recently released or exclusive never before released original pop music selections, (some of which become high-charting records on their own, which due to being released on another franchises title, peaked because of that) and
186-411: A soundtrack is frequently released alongside it. A soundtrack typically contains instrumentation or alternatively a film score . But it can also feature songs that were sung or performed by characters in a scene (or a cover version of a song in the media, rerecorded by a popular artist), songs that were used as intentional or unintentional background music in important scenes, songs that were heard in
217-434: A widespread hit with a song from a soundtrack. Before the 1970s, soundtracks (with a few exceptions), accompanied towards musicals , and was an album that featured vocal and instrumental, (and instrumental versions of vocal songs) musical selections performed by cast members. Or cover versions of songs sung by another artist. After the 1970s, soundtracks started to include more diversity, and music consumers would anticipate
248-495: Is a creep, and is later recruited into a mysterious organization called the Committee. On her first VR assignment for the Committee, Sydney must find an unhappy and spiteful teenage genius - who after making a momentous discovery has run away from the top secret weapons research establishment where he worked - before he can do any harm. During her search, Sydney must try to deal with her own sense of solitude. Sydney investigates
279-512: Is actually happening at various points throughout the series. VR.5 , a mid-season replacement , debuted shortly after the rise to popularity of The X-Files , and executive producer Thania St. John stated that " VR will try to capture that same, creepy feeling." The show's visual effects for when characters were inside virtual reality were created by shooting on black-and-white film and then manually adding color to each image. This effect took four weeks to create for each episode and added to
310-450: Is an American science-fiction television series first broadcast on the Fox network from March 10 to May 12, 1995. Ten of its thirteen episodes were aired during its original run. The title of the show refers to the degree of immersion the protagonist experiences in virtual reality . Prior to the events of the series, Sydney Bloom was the daughter of Dr. Joseph Bloom, a computer scientist who
341-418: Is kidnapped by a faction of the Committee who brutally question her to discover her secret. She manages to contact Duncan for help, and he enters into VR in search of her. Oliver is somehow in possession of the journal of Sydney's father, but is he on Sydney's side? Oliver instructs Sydney to make a VR link to a test pilot in a psychiatric hospital. The pilot keeps seeing fire and hates his father. Sydney enters
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#1732801918073372-410: Is simply used for promotional purposes for well known artists, or new or unknown artists. These soundtracks contain music not at all heard in the film/television series, and any artistic or lyrical connection is purely coincidental. However depending on the genre of the media the soundtrack of popular songs would have a set pattern; a lighthearted romance might feature easy listening love songs, whilst
403-485: The closing credits , or songs for no apparent reason related to the media other than for promotion, that were included in a soundtrack. Before home video became widespread in the 1980s, many soundtrack albums would also feature snippets of dialogue, as this was one of the few ways to re-experience a film after its original release apart from television broadcasts or theatrical reissues. Soundtracks are usually released on major record labels (just as if they were released by
434-630: The "missing episodes" and were broadcast in countries such as Canada, Norway, France and the United Kingdom. The series was eventually shown in its entirety on the Sci Fi Channel . The episode "Sisters" was not aired in the UK to make room for an "X-Files" documentary. The series was broadcast on CBS Drama in Europe in early 2014. Virtual Storm, an online community, lobbied Fox to develop
465-610: The Committee and returns to her childhood home in Pasadena. The previous inhabitants claim the house is possessed by demons, while his daughter insists an angel saved her life during a fire. When an armed man takes hostages in an air traffic control tower, Sydney is ordered to establish a VR link. In the process, she discovers a cover-up over the reason for a crash several years earlier. An increasingly careless and disillusioned Oliver assigns Sydney to an unknown contact. This contact turns out to be Oliver's former lover, Alex, who may know
496-511: The Laurence Olivier Richard III , the soundtrack of which was released as a 3-LP album by RCA Victor in 1955. Sometimes tracks not in the movie are included in the album, especially on a CD release of the soundtrack as opposed to an LP. Some of these may be "outtakes" (songs or instrumental music recorded for use in the movie but "cut" in the final edit as released), or they may have been used in trailers but not in
527-408: The cost of the show, which was about U.S. $ 1.5 million per episode. While distributor Rysher Entertainment never confirmed it, the high cost of the production, coupled with a difficult time slot, contributed to the show's commercial failure. The music for VR.5 was created by composer John Frizzell . The opening theme music came to Frizzell in a dream. Dee Carstensen and Eileen Frizzell provided
558-444: The first three minutes, after which the dialogue was abruptly cut off and the musical score of the film took over, forcing listeners to "see the film if they wished to know what the mystery was all about." In a few rare instances, the complete soundtrack for a film — dialogue, music, sound effects, etc. — has been released. One notable example was a 3-LP set of the 1977 Rankin-Bass film The Hobbit . Because this particular film
589-417: The hospital disguised as a patient but has trouble separating his memories from her own. Sydney enters VR to probe the mind of a self-confessed traitor scheduled for execution to find out why he did it. She discovers he was being blackmailed by people who held his son hostage, and in the process, Sydney must come to terms with her anger towards her own father. Sydney decides to take a holiday from her work at
620-512: The mind of Janine, a cashier at her workplace whom she discovers is stealing. Sydney herself gets pulled into the excitements and thrills of these criminal activities. Sydney is assigned to subconsciously prod Jackson Boothe, a troubled employee of the Committee, into returning to work. In doing so, Sydney discovers that Booth is an assassin. Oliver Sampson becomes Sydney's new contact for the Committee, and he pushes her into trying to trace who hired Boothe for his most recent assassination. Sydney
651-425: The movie involved in other events (example: King of Pirates , from FLCL ). The unusual first soundtrack album of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz , issued in 1956 in conjunction with the film's first telecast, was virtually a condensed version of the film, with enough dialogue on the album for the listener to be able to easily follow the plot, as was the first soundtrack album of the 1968 Romeo and Juliet , and
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#1732801918073682-536: The movie itself. Examples include the South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut soundtrack. Two other well-known examples are the soundtrack albums to Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Carousel and The King and I both of which include two or more songs not heard in the finished film. Soundtrack albums account for the bulk of the Indian music industry . Music from the Indian film industry , particularly
713-417: The original stage cast of a musical , and are recorded by the cast either in live performance or in a studio, not transferred from a movie soundtrack. In some cases, recorded dialogue may be incorporated into the soundtrack album. This comes in two kinds: audio clips from the movie itself (used on the albums for Pulp Fiction and Apollo 13 , for example) or radio dramas that involve the characters from
744-500: The same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VR-5&oldid=1048566473 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages VR.5 VR.5
775-522: The soundtrack albums of The Taming of the Shrew (1967 version), Cromwell , and Little Big Man . In the case of Patton , the bulk of the album featured the film's musical score, while the opening and final tracks featured George C. Scott 's opening and closing speeches from the movie. The highly unusual soundtrack album of the 1972 mystery film Sleuth was designed as a sort of teaser , with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine 's voices heard for
806-420: The virtual world have an effect on the real world. She subsequently agrees to use her abilities to help a mysterious secret organization called the Committee. She receives her covert assignments from Frank Morgan, and later from Oliver Sampson. Sydney's friend Duncan advises her and helps her when he can. The show frequently uses inconsistencies in continuity and a distinctive color scheme as clues to suggest what
837-469: The vocals in the opening theme. The music supervisor of the series was Abby Treloggen. A soundtrack CD was released in 1995 on the Zoo Entertainment / BMG Music label. A tech wizard with tragic past discovers that she can use her top of the line photo-realistic VR tech to bring people into her VR world via phone and see or alter their subconsciousness. She uses this on her date to see if he
868-422: The whereabouts of Sydney's father. Duncan awakens in a mirror universe - an alternate reality perfectly opposite to the one he knows, in which Sam is alive and Sydney is dead. Sydney and her sister Samantha are reunited and, along with Duncan, they enter VR5 to discover what really happened the night of the car crash. "Sisters," "Send Me An Angel," and "Parallel Lives" were not broadcast on Fox. They are called
899-462: Was Walt Disney 's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , the soundtrack to the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , in 1938. The first soundtrack album of a film's orchestral score was that for Alexander Korda 's 1942 film Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book , composed by Miklós Rózsa . When a feature film is released, or during and after a television series airs, an album in the form of
930-449: Was produced for television, it lent itself well to the LP format: built-in commercial insert points were used to end each LP side, thus avoiding any additional editing. Another example was the above-mentioned Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet – the movie proved so popular that two years after the film's original release, an album set of the complete soundtrack was released. Still another example was
961-413: Was working on developing virtual reality . His wife Nora Bloom, a neurochemist, was also involved in the project. Sydney's father, and her sister Samantha, died in a car accident in 1978. Now in 1995, Sydney is a telephone lineworker and computer hobbyist . One day, she accidentally discovers that she can enter an advanced type of virtual reality, where she can interact with other people. Her actions in