Music Illustration Examples
The few examples below are initial Emotiff Music Illustrations™ composed into roughly 2.5 minute ‘mini-musical stories’. The inspiration for the music came after early story ideas had been discussed with filmmakers using my Emotiff Discovery Method™
These Music Illustrations are not intended to be used as finished music cues, but rather to be used by the project’s creatives as a kind of ‘mood board’ to start creative conversation.
If certain elements of these Music Illustrations work particularly well, then they can be developed further into useable cues.
Capture of James Earl Ray
June 8th 1968, whilst trying to leave London Heathrow Airport, suspected Martin Luther King Jr assassin - James Earl Ray was apprehended due to one man's attention to detail, Kenneth Human, an immigration officer. Special Branch officers intervened and the most wanted man in America had been caught.
Death on Everest
In 2006, a British climber made his final push on the northeast ridge of Mt. Everest. At 8,230m he attempts to reach the summit. The next day over 40 climbers pass a body crouched motionless, he is severely frostbitten and is slowly dying. With no one able to help sadly he becomes another victim.
Child Goes Missing
March 24th 1991, a 4 year old boy disappeared from a playground in British Columbia. The boy was playing within metres of his parents. No witnesses have ever been identified. The search for the boy was the largest police investigation in Canadian history and to date he has never been found.
Ukraine Riots
The riots took place in Ukraine between 18th-23rd February 2014, during which a series of violent events involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters in the capital, Kiev. Scores of protesters were killed by police snipers making this the bloodiest protest in Ukrainian history.
Pripyat Disaster
The Pripyat amusement park was to be opened on May 1, 1986, in time for the May Day celebrations, but on April 26 the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred just a few miles away. The park was opened for a couple of hours on April 27 to keep people entertained before the announcement to evacuate the city.
St.Kilda - End of an Era
This is St Kilda, the barren, rocky archipelago of four small islands. The outermost of the Outer Hebrides, 110 miles off the west coast of Scotland, was cut-off by stormy seas for up to nine months of the year. In 1930, the last 36 people were evacuated from the island, bringing 2,000 years of habitation to an end.
