GoodMusician said:
What I've learned through studying film music is that there are maybe 3 ways of going about composing the music.
2) To create a sort of "looney tunes" version. What I mean by that is in Looney Tunes, when someone hits someone over the head or falls off a cliff, the music notates this. Jerry Goldsmith was VERY much prolific in this sense (He even did the Looney Tunes Films lol). Cuts in the film are hightened by a change in music or a change in pace... explosions are notated with cymbol crashes...etc.
There's an actual term for that style of scoring. Funny enough, it's called "Mickey Mousing". Very close example with the Looney Tunes. :)