Description |
On-screen: |
Marlowe's car skids to a stop |
Description: |
Steiner uses a quick rising and falling gesture to accompany the skidding car on-screen (which is unfortunately hard to hear under the sound effects) |
Film annotations: |
[m. 25] He skids |
Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 25] violins / W.W. / picc / slide whistle / harp gliss |
Analysis: |
The skidding gesture begins with a rising chromatic scale, then falls by arpeggiating a GbM7 |
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Tags |
car | chromatic scale | leading man | mickey-mousing | private eye | skidding | street | tense | traveling scene
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Media |