Music Cue Scene Analysis: The Musical Torque

The musical cue will begin right when the scene starts, the overall musical cue is all in a major key, a major sound in the harmony is associated with positive emotions creating a positive situation in the scene instead of a negative. The positive melody will affect how the audience will perceive it. Throughout the scene, the musical cue has a melodic line of thinness. With the use of minimalistic style, source music, and underscoring, which will create a cue that does not take the attention away from the scene but make a better understanding. It starts with source music, as shown an empty bench and then a lake view as the wind blows against the tall grass plants, wind blowing would be heard for the first 00:10 of the scene. The use of source music helps the

Then at the 00:25 in the scene where the camera shows a railway track, the various violins are being played by plucking at an ostinato in pianissimo in 4/4 time, at 50 BPM. The xylophone is no longer heard, and is only played in the start. The notes the violins play range from low to high, giving off a rhythm of down and up, this is used as the leitmotif of the girl in the scene. As the girl comes running into the frame, the plucking of the violins crescendo from pianissimo to mezzo forte, a flute comes in and plays along with the violins. This gives the audience something to notice in the musical cue as it guides them throughout the cue showing what situation the girl in. The girl running goes along with the beat of the violins plucking as it gets more intense, the running does too. Also, taking the inspiration of the musical cue from Ben Hur, by Henry Mancini, during the galley of slave’s scene where men can be seen rowing a boat, where a hortator hammers out a beat against a drum; the pounding of the hortator, generates an aural equivalent to the physical effort of