Nosferatu Re-Score Project Presentations

.aa - week eleven.

Today, students presented their re-score Nosferatu 'cuts' to the class.



My personal favourite re-scoring was presented was by John Delany. John composed an partially abstract electro-acoustic piece, which in my opinion worked beautifully to bring the film into a more fluid, enjoyable, emotional and (let's face it) electronic context. Dave Dowling's re-score was indeed quite typically Westernised - that is - conventional, however this is only a testament his fantastic re-score and hard work. I have approached film scoring with this method before and found although it might involve using 'clichés' it does not make the work any easier (much to my surprise). Again, an excellent project by Dave. Moving along, Ben Probert's piano re-score was brilliant I must admit - I am a sucker for Minimalism, and I give him full marks for his inventive use piano recording technique. Luke Digance's re-score was the most understated - not at all a busy score - though no other student used this approach it was actually quite effective. His decision to keep the score quiet made the 'scary' scenes all the more impacting.

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Harrald, Luke 21.10.08 "Class Presentations," Lecture of EMU, Adelaide University.

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