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The Silent Note - poignant drama
During WWII a small group of pilots are given anti-aging drugs. The
experiment works - but at what cost?
  
 
Entered into the
Sony TropFest 2006, the World's largest
short film festival, held Sunday 26 February 2006 - over 130,000 people viewing
16 finalist films selected from over 700 entries at venues in SYDNEY, MELBOURNE,
BRISBANE, PERTH, CANBERRA and HOBART.
Titles Music
The Silent Note March, 41 secs,
0.984MB - A Military March for a small military wind band of the type that might
have been during WWII. Used for opening titles and closing credits.
Composition
The lead in to the film starts with our hero in the present day alone in a
meeting room, contemplating the meeting ahead. It takes him back to his time in
the RAF during the Second World War.
I start with a low sustain during this contemplation, with short and quiet
bursts of snare drum to pre-empt the military connection.
At the scene change to the dream back to WWII, the video goes monochrome and
I start the Silent Note March proper.
I chose a style and orchestration that I thought might have been heard by the
characters during the War. The harmony is very obvious major chords in a major
key, with the bass played by a tuba staying mainly on only I and V.
The melody is entirely woodwind, as might have been the case in a small
military windband and is a simple but animated line. The melody is repeated but
with the addition of a counter-melody, as was often the practice in the final
sections of marches of the period. The counter-melody again, is very obvious in
its line.
Throughout the percussion section is typical of a marching band with snare
drums, small bass drum and clash cymbals.
The mp3 given on this site is exactly as it appears during the titles at the
beginning of the movie. At the end of the movie there is a poignant sustain, out
of which grows first the flute, the snare, the piccolo and then the full
windband having a jolly end to the film as the credits roll. |
