A lazy study in perfect sound design - Fury Road

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Brothers In Arms (Extended Version)

The piece above scored the sequence below, which is an example of perfect coordination of story, sight, sound and music to produce investment in characters and film. The alternation between major and minor keys and the relentless Bass Cello punctuation (which begins its life as a synth punctuation within a minor key sequence), with the orchestration increasing in complexity with each swelling iteration - all are amazing. Add to the music the sound design (and of course visuals) and you have something that exceeds classic Star Wars examples. Consider the switch to major key at 2:29 (sorry my theory language is not the best), and especially the dropping of the scoop at 3:35. This machine - the war rig - comes out of this sequence transformed into something more than a machine. A pregnant-to-bursting woman in a post-apocalyptic hellscape is herself being protected within the womb of a "war rig" that is on fire, being pursued by psychotic murderers with a literal explosive death wish and nothing to lose, and the war rig drops the scoop and buries its head in the sand to put out the flames, groaing in relief before taking a deep breath and powering forward. The rig comes to life for the rest of the film. Notice also the gunshots, explosions and bike engine sounds sync (not perfectly, but almost, which is what you want) with the music bars and major drum changes.

 

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