Picture the future - music for continuity and cohesion
Picture the future is a paper by Sophie Gudmann Knutsson discussing how the future is depicted in 10 different science fiction movies, to understand how the future is communicated in popular culture and what we can learn from these approaches. But, it is not a paper. It is a short movie that uses video snippets and sounds clips from these 10 movies with voice over to tell this story. I wrote some music for the movie and I took the standpoint from traditional dramatic underscore and aimed to create music that would help in creating cohesion and bridge the different movie snippets, but also that could support different sections of the message in her storytelling. As I grew up in the 80’s I made electronic sounding music, maybe an homage to the original Blade runner film from 1982 with music by Vangelis. And I tried to make the music reflective and immersive, while still existing in the background.