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Action music! So this is a mesh of smaller cues the school orchestra recorded for my film scoring class project... the assignment was to score a scene from The French Connection, which was difficult because in this part the action keeps starting and stopping so the music has to keep things tense while heating up and cooling down very rapidly. In addition we only had a few minutes to record each person's music (much less time than they give you in Hollywood) so the music had to be very simple/easy to read while still full of energy! The musicians read it down very well all considered!
Category Music / Classical
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Size 120 x 98px
File Size 2.81 MB
My favorite movie of all time. I assume this fits the long wordless cat-and-mouse game of the detective stalking the wily suspect on the busy city streets, ending up in the subway. The deep bass strings are reminiscent of those that dominated the original score but this is very much its own animal.
Yes indeed! The scene we scored starts on the rooftop and goes through the point when the conductor of the train is taken hostage. This cue, however, doesn't cover the whole length of that scene since I chopped it up and put the more urgent music into one cue and the more sneaky music into another. I wonder if I still have the video with the music married to it...
Ah, I'm mistaken then. The scene I mentioned comes shortly before the close of the second act and is accompanied by the original score. The scene you describe comes 5 to 10 minutes later, at the top of the third act, and has no original score. The loud sound FX of train and automobile take over during the high speed chase. IIRC that sequence was edited using Santana's Black Magic Woman as a scratch track to set the pacing.
Oh ok, I never saw the full movie so I got mixed up! We scored that scene because there was no music already there, and because the sound effects with the rapid changes of scene and stop/go action made it an interesting challenge.. we had to write music that weaved in and out of the SFX and was able to stop/go with the action without losing too much intensity.. the other scene we could have scored was from the China Syndrome, where there's another scene during the meltdown that had no music which we thought would be interesting to try from another approach with music. I chose French Connection to do because I couldn't pass up the opportunity to have an orchestra record some action music for me.. it has helped my demo reel much more than some interesting but subtle 'will it blow?' music would have. :)
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