Description |
On-screen: |
Large iron door |
Description: |
A mysterious horn call is heard as the film fades in from black to an iron door and we see a grotesque-looking door knocker; the horn is answered by rising chromatic string gestures that grow more and more intense; in between each of these orchestral statements (during the silence), a hand reaches up and knocks on the iron door |
Music annotations: |
[m. 1] XX100T8-262-1-M.T.32 / ft. / andante (mysterioso) / mf / ten; [m. 3] mp; [m. 4] rit / fz; [m. 5] ten; [m. 7] A; [m. 8] sf; [m. 9] poco accel / mf / ff; [m. 10] ff; [m. 11] ff; [m. 12] B / ten / poco crescendo; [m. 14] accel / mf; [m. 17] rall / gliss Gb |
Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Iron door ent; [m. 4] Knock on door; [m. 8] Knock; [m. 11] Knock |
Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] horn solo; [m. 3] pizz and sustained; [m. 5] horn solo; [m. 9] a little fuller/pizz and sustained; [m. 12] horn solo; [m. 14] a 2 / str and W.W. / pizz; [m. 17] viol? / harp |
Analysis: |
Begins with an descending minor third (Ab-F), oscillating between those two pitches |
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Tags |
castle | cast list | door | door knocker | knocking | mysterious | opening | opening title sequence | statue | tense | title of film | zoom in | zoom out
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