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Abstract
The piece of music I have written for my Culminating Experience (CE) is a rescore of the short animation, ‘Charge’, which is an animation created by the animation studio, Blender. The synopsis is, ‘In an energy-scarce dystopia, an old destitute man breaks into a battery factory but soon finds himself confronted by a deadly security droid and no way out.’
I chose this animation as I really wanted to challenge myself as a composer. Charge has a variety of moods and is full of difficult sync points, so the whole piece took a lot of work and preparation to get right.
The aim of this paper is to document the entire journey of my composition for Charge, in an attempt to be of useful reference for related projects in the future and to provide sufficient justification for choosing the animation to represent my skills as a composer.
Publication Date
7-1-2024
Campus
Valencia (Spain) Campus
Keywords
Sync point, Orchestration, Film scoring, Mockup, Cue
Recommended Citation
Dudeney, David. “An Orchestral Rescore of Charge.” Master's thesis, Berklee College of Music, 2024. https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-scoring/254.