Intro:
« The intent of your music, or knowing what you want to say, is crucial. » (Davis, p. 133). Through music, a multitude of feelings and emotions can be expressed. Because of that, you have to know what do you want to say, which emotion do you want to convey as « starting without knowing what you want is like trying to swim without knowing the strokes. ». All three scenes in this portfolio has been watched muted first to see what the image wanted to say and what feelings would describes those moments. For the very first process of making music, several words were then wrote in a piece of paper to transcribe the emotion felt (see appendix).
The scenes selected are come from three different movies:
- The Wind Rises, an animation drama movie by Hayao Miyazaki.
- Interstellar, a science fiction movie by Christopher Nolan.
- No Country for Old Men, a western thriller film by Joel and Ethan Coen.
I/ Composition, arranging, and storytelling :
The music has …show more content…
Being taken place in a Western environment, Texas, the No Country for Old Men’s scene chose starts with a crescendo strings playing legato, following by a light piano. Right after at 00:56, low piano notes are played to give a more serious and dangerous tone to the scene, following by the legato strings playing a lower register than the beginning (before 00:56). Acoustic guitar slides, such as at 1:00, are here to emphasise the Western and the desert environment. The guitar was then faded down and does not appear again until 1:30, using a delay (H-Delay by Waves) at *time+feedback* The arrangement has been made light and enough room was there to leave for the voice over speech as the speech in this scene is central and plays a big role for this movie, the public has to focus attention on it without the music blurring
« The intent of your music, or knowing what you want to say, is crucial. » (Davis, p. 133). Through music, a multitude of feelings and emotions can be expressed. Because of that, you have to know what do you want to say, which emotion do you want to convey as « starting without knowing what you want is like trying to swim without knowing the strokes. ». All three scenes in this portfolio has been watched muted first to see what the image wanted to say and what feelings would describes those moments. For the very first process of making music, several words were then wrote in a piece of paper to transcribe the emotion felt (see appendix).
The scenes selected are come from three different movies:
- The Wind Rises, an animation drama movie by Hayao Miyazaki.
- Interstellar, a science fiction movie by Christopher Nolan.
- No Country for Old Men, a western thriller film by Joel and Ethan Coen.
I/ Composition, arranging, and storytelling :
The music has …show more content…
Being taken place in a Western environment, Texas, the No Country for Old Men’s scene chose starts with a crescendo strings playing legato, following by a light piano. Right after at 00:56, low piano notes are played to give a more serious and dangerous tone to the scene, following by the legato strings playing a lower register than the beginning (before 00:56). Acoustic guitar slides, such as at 1:00, are here to emphasise the Western and the desert environment. The guitar was then faded down and does not appear again until 1:30, using a delay (H-Delay by Waves) at *time+feedback* The arrangement has been made light and enough room was there to leave for the voice over speech as the speech in this scene is central and plays a big role for this movie, the public has to focus attention on it without the music blurring