{"id":543,"date":"2015-10-20T21:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/?p=543"},"modified":"2015-11-06T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:16:30","slug":"far-away-film-lost-with-map-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/far-away-film-lost-with-map-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Far Away’ film – Lost with Map Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

See\u00a0the post\u00a0‘Far Away’ film<\/a>\u00a0(below) for more information on the actual film itself, the plot and things like that. This post is about the\u00a0scene where Alex gets lost and uses his map to try and figure out where he is in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n

When I first looked at the\u00a0‘Lost with Map\u00a0Scene’ footage, my immediate\u00a0thought was: ‘How am I going to write music that is not in the forefront to the audience by not disrupting the speech\u00a0but also\u00a0creates\u00a0the right\u00a0feeling for the moment?’ I watched it over and over without music and when I watched other films I thought\u00a0a bit about how they achieved this in similar kinds of scenes. There are so many films that do this well but the most\u00a0obvious one to reference is\u00a0‘Pirates of the Caribbean’,\u00a0which\u00a0constantly hints the theme in the background and has many melodies and motifs that come back throughout, often subtly. Done well, background music sounds coherent in style,\u00a0texture and feeling to the main themes and melodies. I wanted a similar feel with this background music for the ‘Lost in the Map Scene’, which is why it is all on classical guitar with a similar style accompaniment to the main theme, and although the chord progression is\u00a0different to every other piece in the film, the melody is hinted subtly in several places. I went for a twangy sound on the guitar to hint a banjo-type instrument.<\/p>\n