This week we were given our first task – to score 30 seconds of the intro to Ingmar Bergman’s film ‘Persona’.  After being shown in the lecture the logisitics of scoring a movie in Logic, we have been sent away to score an excerpt of this film “in any style”.  Which obviously leaves a lot of scope for any number of musical and conceptual ideas.
I decided to research the film first, to give me a feel for exactly what I am scoring the intro to, and also in the hope that it would give me some inspiration (as to be honest I was at a loss as to what to do).  And lo and behold, it did. The film itself is, in my opinion, brilliant, and certainly gave me a few ideas for the introduction.
In contrast with the original soundtrack for the film’s intro, I have decided instead to use classical music to evoke the idea of an old, black-and-white horror movie (think Dracula and Frankenstein).  If this pans out how I want it to, I think it will work well.
We shall see.