I still remember some of my earliest movie experiences as a little kid, the ones that really amazed me and stayed with me throughout the years. I grew up with Star Wars and Spielberg’s adventure movies—movies that made you dream. The sensation of getting really close to a character on screen, seeing what they see, feeling what they feel, always fascinated me. With time, I realized that a lot of that had to do with the music.Music in film has the power to let us read between the lines, to get under our skin, and to understand things where words fail. It’s an incredible tool for storytelling, and it can help us look deep inside the mind of a character. - YouTube www.youtube.com When I was tasked with composing the score for the psychological thriller Slingshot, it became clear that I’d have to take this concept one step further: to get deep inside a mind that is falling apart.In Slingshot, we follow John (Casey Affleck), one of three astronauts aboard a mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. The journey takes years, and in this isolation, John is slowly losing his grip on reality, increasingly unsure of what’s real and what’s just in his head.To approach this musically, I wanted to find ways to make John’s mental state audible. I started working with different melodic fragments and patterns, and synths to create a sense of recognizable movement. This is a common concept in film scoring, but it becomes more interesting when these...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 13 September, 2024