Week Three - Elizabeth's War on Terror
14 Oct 2013
The edit is now well under way for Elizabeth's War on Terror, the Channel Five drama-doc I'm scoring at the moment. The deadline of the first viewing by the commissioner at C5 this week is looming and I'll be working my way through parts 1 and 2 (the doc is split up by ad breaks) this week, replacing parts of sketch cues I've been feeding the editor, Sue Outlaw and the director/producer, Mark Fielder over the last few weeks.
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| Extract from the score for Elizabeth's War on Terror - page 3 of the first cue in the film. |
Here's a rare glimpse of the inside workings of one of my cues - it's the moment of a transition in the storytelling between Mary Queen of Scots thinking a group of horsemen have come to rescue her from house arrest under Elizabeth I's orders, and a description of the plotting Catholic subversive groups that formed around Mary. Little trick here: even though I'm using samples to realise the score, the subtle slowdowns at the points marked rall(entando). and rit(ardando). help to give the music an expressive feel.
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