FILM AND MEDIA
Sister From the South
Short Film
Sister From the South follows the true story of a South African born person of colour battling intense schoolyard racism in 1970s Australia. The largely light-orchestral score (presented third in the adjacent video) follows a brief era-setting doo-wop track (second).
The score culminates in a song form moment as the protagonist retaliates and stands up for herself (first). This final cue, leading into the credits, serves to connect the soulful and brassy tones of period relevant artists such as Aretha Franklin with a twist of modernity, reminding the audience that while this film may be set in the 70s, similar incidents of racial vilification continue to occur around the world.
Dirt Game is an Australian TV Drama centred around the Australian mining industry. These excerpts come from a university assignment tasked to score a significant portion of the pilot episode as well as providing opening titles music. The aesthetic for this score combines and contrasts the grit of miners working hard in the heat of the day with the clean and slightly pretentious business world with which their fates lie.
The open title (presented first) demonstrates this using aggressive metallic percussion to contrast a smooth string quartet and piano. The subsequent transition cues show the continued thematic use of percussion, quartet and piano as they reflect the mis en scene. The final cues presented contain diegetic and meta-diegetic music of styles dictated by location.
Dirt Game
TV Drama
Budget Direct
TVC
The adjacent Budget Direct TVC was provided as a university project in which the entirety of the sound design (including voice acting) and a score was to be submitted. Foley techniques were utilised in creative ways particularly in capturing some of the more out-of-this world moments such as squirting slime balls and flying demons.
The score aims to capture the mystery genre through clichés such as intense ostinato patterns, airy ambience and dramatic juxtapositions. This reliance on common tropes aides the parody genre, adds comic value, and hastens the audience’s ability to ‘get it,’ even in abridged segments as is usually required for television promotion.
Old Mate stories a young man forced to work with the elderly and gradually building a connection with a slightly confused older gentleman who mistakes him for his son. As the senior character passes away the young man faces a moment of processing the reality of death.
The score demonstrates piano-based thematic and motivic writing as well as blurring score and sound design to show the passage of time as the protagonist performs menial tasks in his mandatory service.
Old Mate
Short Film
The following tracks are part of a series for a proposed console game; Tubular. The game was described as a futuristic, combative, racing game that takes place across three environments. The brief described the game to be of a Gameboy Advance era in style.
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The score reflects the brazen aesthetic of classic Gameboy scores, utilising a heavily synthesised sound in the menu and loading music. The other tracks listed below are an example of environment specific music. These pieces are written for the shoreline/beach environment. They use bold calypso beats with variations of the main thematic material to place the audience at a fun, energetic and entertaining coastline reminiscent of the Caribbean.
Tubular
Video Game
TV Police Drama (Chase Sequence)
Copstinato
A synthesised ostinato in the modern police drama genre. This piece develops to build tension and action, as well as passing through different sonic landscapes imagined as an action chase sequence moving rapidly through a variety of locations.
Meteorite
Song Form to Media Brief
A song written to a brief requiring a David Bowie inspired number. Both lyrically and musically the piece draws on inspiration and aspiration of space travel as a way of escaping the mundanities of life.
Early to Mid 20th Century Period Piece
Jazz on tape
Recorded to tape, this track provides an authentic representation of early jazz with all the nuanced idiosyncrasies captured in the recording process.
That's how it grows
Short Comedy (Credits Sequence)
A comedic song written to a brief for a film about a bald man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for hair regrowth only to find it is unable to stop as he turns into the Bigfoot!