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Today I want to share with you my final work for production 1, one of the subjects I am currently studying as a student of Film Scoring.
This work consists of providing music and effects to a scene from "Nosferatu", a 1922 silent movie classic directed by F. W. Murnau.
Here the scene is completely silent:
In this scene we can see how Hellen Hutter (Greta Schröder) wakes up from her dreams and falls under the influence and control of Count Orlok (the vampire), a situation that develops with an increase in tension throughout the scene.
Our job was to understand what the scene needed and where its climax was, that means, its points of maximum tension and/or emotion. In this way we can emphasize certain moments in the film and give them a higher hierarchy than others.
You have to be careful when you work with a silent scene because it looks like a blank canvas, and if you don't "listen" to the needs of the scene, you may end up using the wrong soundtrack and the wrong effects. That's why it's important to understand first what's happening and how to emphasize it from the music.
If we imagine a Justin Timberlake song in a 1922 horror movie we would understand perfectly what it is like to have a out of context soundtrack hahaha.
Here's the music scene:
As you can see, I do not use the music of my dear Justin Timberlake hahaha.
I decided to use a string quartet number 4, Op. 37 (1936) by Arnold Schoenberg(Vienna, September 13, 1874-Los Angeles, July 13, 1951), a famous Austrian composer, music theorist and painter of Jewish origin, recognized as one of the first composers to venture into atonal composition, and especially for the creation of the dodecaphonic technique based on a series of twelve notes.
This music works quite well in my opinion, both for its historical context ( although the scene is prior to the music) and for its natural tension, typical of atonalism. This string quartet reinforces the situations proposed in the scene since it is not always the same, it has its rest moments and climaxes.
I must clarify that this would not be possible without the edition, it is practically impossible to throw a work already composed on a scene and that these two work perfectly in the first attempt, that's when the edition comes in: cut, paste, stretch, raise and lower.
If we combine the music with the sound effects, we will have a complete sound scene.
In this case I chose to create a stormy environment, using different types of environments, winds, lightning and thunder to enhance the tension and "horror". Then there are the fundamental effects of the scene that cannot be missed, such as the noises of the doors, the window, the sheets and the steps.
There are many ways to do this work and it varies according to the interpretation of each person; this was mine and I hope you liked it!
Any questions, comments or suggestions are very welcome!
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