4. Morvern Callar Scene Study (Naziha and Hannah).mov

In October 2010, as part of a proposed collaboration project, Trinity composers were invited to "add sound" to one of a small selection of scene studies by student directors from the Drama Centre. The scenes were reinventions from existing films and all shared the common property of being centred poignant dialogues riddled with intrigue or dramatic irony whether in the context of comedy (Vicky Christina Barcelona) or tragedy (Morvern Callar). All the footage was presented without music and with the sound recorded only by the camera's microphones.
The study I chose came from Lynne Ramsay's 2002 masterpiece, Morvern Callar.
Synopsis: Morvern Callar is a 21 year-old supermarket worker from a small port town in the west of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something that you get on with as best you can with what you've got. One morning Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor...

Scene: The study actually merges two separate scenes to form a continuous dialogue between Morvern and her friend, Lana who is as yet unaware of Morvern's predicament and will reveal to her a shameful secret.
When composing the music for this scene I was aware that the dialogue between the two girls was the central point of focus and it was my intention that its natural drama should not be compromised by the sound. Since Lana does not know about Morvern's boyfriend yet and at the moment Morvern wants to tell her she seems to get cold feet, there is a sense of dramatic irony in the scene which allows us to entertain the notion that Morvern does not completely trust her friend. There is therefore a hiatus between the two and a wonderful tension arises from a blurring of the boundaries. Is Lana's presence comforting for 'Morvy' or is she crowding her personal space.
The scene begins underwater so I decided to build the sonic landscape of the scene on 'submerged' sounds which simmer beneath the surface threatening potential irruptions at any minute. The music to which the girls dance in the living room and kitchen is 'I want more' by Can (1976) and comes from the soundtrack to the original film (2002).

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Lovely. And I dig the Blow-Up poster =]