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Jay

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Ha! There was a time I was thinking of making an "intensity graph" or two for some scores to show structure, but not nearly to this level of detail, just in arbitrary acts. Interesting choice for doing a full film-length one, shows off well how sparsely spotted it is in the middle.

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Never seen it. Would have been useful, if I'd had ever done a scholarly work on the score. It was the one thing I absolutely hated while writing my thesis, but that needed to be done -- sitting down and identifying and time-coding the scores and themes of the scores featured in my analysis chapters (E.T., BLADE RUNNER and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS). I know it's something that interests the majority here, but I couldn't be less interested. I wanted to get to the proper interpretation as quickly as possible, what the score did in the respective scenes, the musico-visual symbolism, stuff like that. That interested me.

 

if I'd had an assistant, I would have told him or her to do a chart like the one posted here.

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24 minutes ago, Bellosh said:

what is wires theme?

 

It's the theme that appears in

 

9M1 The Falling Car @ 1:10, 2:18

 

 

11M2 Preparing To Meet The Monster @ 3:50

 

 

11M3/12M1 High Wire Stunts @ 0:00, 0:30, 0:40, 1:26, 3:19

 

 

Just like the chart says!

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7 minutes ago, Groovygoth666 said:

this site,

 

Brilliant, nice work!

I'll add the official site to the mian post

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What does the y-axis denote?

 

Ah, found it:

"The curve represents the energy level of the music in a scale from 1-5 at every minute. Red curves represent orchestral underscores, and green ones, source songs."

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I guess either the volume of the music or like, the complexity of it?  Not sure.

 

He also doesn't state anywhere that he uses green for source music that isn't part of the score

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Not only it is a useful way to see which parts of the film are not scored, but it's also interesting to see the structure of the movie. The action with the dinosaurs doesn't start until the middle of the film!

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6 hours ago, Jay said:

I guess either the volume of the music or like, the complexity of it?  Not sure.

 

He also doesn't state anywhere that he uses green for source music that isn't part of the score

 

https://www.santiagobarx.com/scoremaps/

 

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A "Score Map" is a graphical representations of the entire score for a film. They allow visualizing the placement of the music and main leitmotifs all along the movie.

The curve represents the energy level of the music in a scale from 1-5 at every minute. Red curves represent orchestral underscores, and green ones, source songs.

 

 

 

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I believe the James Horner film music site has done some similar maps with a few of his scores. Legends of the Fall and Glory I want say got that treatment. Im sure there are others too:
https://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/legends-of-the-fall-expanded-edition-our-exclusive-review/

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4 hours ago, enderdrag64 said:

Not quite a graphic but I made this a couple months ago

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Just needs the scene descriptions filled in

 

This is brilliant!  I never noticed the minor loop/dial-outs in the two opening cues!

 

I think Indie In Pursuit actually was edited in the film, though; the brass pause on the close-up on Harrison on the horse was truncated.

 

Also, since you're including the stock Arabian music, perhaps you could also include the Arabic Digging/Dock songs, which I think lairdo said were recorded by extras during filming?  The former would be between Don't Touch That and Discovering The Script and appear again just as Reunion In The Tent ends.  The latter would appear between Indie's Feats and En Bateau.

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6 hours ago, enderdrag64 said:

Not quite a graphic but I made this a couple months ago

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Just needs the scene descriptions filled in

This is great, thanks!

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