Blog 14: track 1 analysis 

[Script in bold] 

ACT 1 – Scene 1 

EXT. OCEAN – DUSK 

Grey clouds loom. A fleet of colossal battleships slowly align across a steel-blue horizon. Cannons shift. Flags rise. Soldiers line the decks—young, weary, silent. A general surveys the sea, his face unreadable. Below deck, soldiers prepare in silence—tightening gear, sharing glances. One soldier clutches a locket. Another draws a symbol in chalk on a bulkhead. A moment of quiet. Suddenly, horns blare. Engines rumble. The ships begin to move. A gull breaks from the formation, flying alone into the sky. 

In this blog I will be describing my compositional process. after re writing the script with the help of AI again, this is the first scene.  

The keyword in this scene is battleships. I wanted something that would not necessarily sound like a battleship but provide the same feeling and energy of a battleship. I used an FM instrument called DS FM which almost sounds like a 909 tom but with less pitch bends. With this instrument I used a fast rhythmic pattern to give it energy. Throughout the track i automate the parameters of this sound to keep it evolving, changing the tone, decay and pitch as the track progresses. Another keyword in this script is steel blue horizon, which helped me to produce the atmosphere in the track, for me the D# Phrygian scale looks blue in my head, so I used this scale for this track. 

I wanted this track to overwhelm the listener to mirror the feeling in the script of going into battle feeling overwhelmed and anxious .