Vanguard1219 wrote...
Here's something that I thought about on my drive home an hour or so ago that I'd like to hear your collective thoughts on. In your mind, what is your Shepard's "soundtrack"? In this context I'm referring to "soundtrack" as the music you imagine playing when (x) thing is happening in-game or in her version of the story. This can include what you consider your Shepard's personal theme, songs that play during certain fights, and so on.
This is actually something that I've been thinking about a lot as I've been writing bits and pieces of "Chronicles" in order to figure out what kind of mood I'm shooting for while I'm writing. I know Sage does the same thing, so her answers will probably be pretty interesting.
Wow, great question!
I have always thought of this sort of thing while I play/write because it really helps. I am a huge fan of Film Scores, ecspecially original classical scores from composers like John Williams, Hanz Zimmer, James Horner, Cliff Eidleman, John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Jack Wall and my personal favorite, Jerry Goldsmith. I love the passion, pain, fear, happiness and other strong emosions that a great composer can produce with an orchastra, they just make the film or game for me.
I can't help hearing portions the soundtracks to "Inception", The DaVinci Code", "Predator", "Back To The Future", "Star Wars", "JFK", "The Dark Knight", "Star Trek II, III and VI" and many others running around in my head.
The one piece that truely sticks in my head and really opitimizes my Madeline is the overture to "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" from 1979. The score was done by Jerry Goldsmith and perhaps his best work and my all time favorite. The piece is entitled "Ilea's Theme" , but I consider it "Madeline's Theme" because I can feel so much of her
character, personality, hopes, dreams, happiness, sadness, love, eternal
optimism and her deep rooted love of exploration and adventure in its broad, haunting and sweeping sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhvhb95MBM
The enite score for ST:TMP is impressive and I highly recommend listening to it if your into that sort of stuff.
I also have also asociated "The Motorcade" from John Williams score for "JFK" with Madeline's trama on Mindor: Her parents deaths, the pain, Madeline "snapping" and taking out her parents killers......Sorry, I'm rambling at that doesn't make much sense with out that portion of my Fan Fic:
On August 29th 2170, the colony Mindor was raided by a large group of Batairian slavers. It started as a beautiful cool day, unusual for this time of year as "August" was usually a hot month...hotter than Earth, and the one Madeline hated because of it. Late in the afternoon, two ships dropped through the atmosphere and made a strange and unscheduled landing. The 89 slavers aboard them poured out like angry bees and waded into the unprepared colony slaughtering and butchering anyone they came across.... including, then 16 year old, Madeline Shepard's family while she watched in horror from the hiding place her Mother had placed her moments before 5 slavers burst in through the front door....
*AUDIO FILE BEGINS - DR. ALLEN MEYERS - DATE 7-24-2179*
"Ah, Lieutenant...Come in, please...have a seat"
"..is
this gonna take long...I just.....look, not be rude or anything...but I'm not sure why I'm here and I think it is just a waste of our time"
"Well since we are apparently skipping the introductions..."
"Your just another shrink here to examine my "delicate mental state" or "dive into my deepest most inner pain" or some **** like that.. right?"
"well, sometimes that is part of it, yes...but the reason you are here is that you were referred to me by your attending physician, Dr. Lambert ……he and I are old friends"
"ooooo...the plot thickens! So Lambert thinks I'm loosin' my marbles or something?"
"..actually he was rather concerned about you…he told me you have been having quite a bit of trouble sleeping and trying for several weeks to get another prescription for Esoretnapam"
"Yeah, so..I have insomnia some times and need something to put down for the night...gotta be rested for what I do"
"Esoretnapam is a very strong sleep aid for very severe cases and is recommended in small doses only...it's not for the occasional bout of insomnia.......he has been your attending doctor for almost 7 years now, he said you have always suffered from trouble sleeping.."
"Look....I don't know what the f*** you guys think is going on, but it's nothing I can't deal with...I just need the Esoretnapam to get myself straightened back out... on a good sleep schedule"
"...This doesn't look good Madeline, you know that....It doesn't look good on paper, it doesn't look good to your commanding officer. I am required to file a full report with Captain Price if I feel there is an issue...that would mean
he would have to remove you from duty....and with your military record, I just don't think you would want that to happen...I don't want that to happen either"
*short pause*
(sigh) "okay...look..I..I have nightmares that keep me awake"
"Nightmares?....what sort of nightmares?
*awkward pause*
(her
voice looses all emotion, with a hint of pain and fear) "....(deep uneasy sigh)...Horrible Nightmares...the kind that….haunt your mind when your awake...and terrorize it when you sleep….images and things that…make you fear ever falling asleep again….things you can NEVER forget about, but want to so badly….."
"Go on Madeline....what are these nightmares about?
"There about uh....my family"
"..You mean about what happened to them on Mindor?"
"..Yeah...I.uh....I..can see my mother, she is in the kitchen preparing dinner like she always
did at this time in the afternoon.
"Tell me a little about her, your mother"
"..(mournful sigh)…She was so beautiful and smart….. she had a strong spirit and a kind heart....my father loved her so. He used to tell me a story about how they met on the Citadel during their academy days. He said he saw
her for the first time on the Presidium....on one of those bridges, you know...the ones across the lakes?......He would always describe her as having long, flowing curls of fiery red hair ...and the most piercing ice blue eyes he had ever seen.... with a gaze that could cut to the depths of the deepest ocean...or the deepest part of a man's soul.... as he used to put it"
"...Go on Maddy"
"Just then, my father comes running in yelling about something that is happening....just can't understand him. He has fear in his eyes.....something I had never seen in him before. My mother is scared too, and comes to find me...rambling....almost about needing to hide me..I...don't know why....I..I am terrified now as well....I can feel tears welling up in my eyes..."
"....After my mother puts me into the service tunnel beneath the house 5 Batarians kick our front door in and barge into the house...I can hear my mother scream as one of them grabs her and drags her into the living room.....I can hear my father yelling at them to leave mother alone, I know that is what he said... I just couldn't hear his exact words..."
"..I stick my head up through the service hatch in the dinning room so that I can see what's happening....I remember seeing one of them hit my mother really hard and my father jumpup to attack the Batarian...the one that hit her.....then.....um....they uh....." *choking back tears*
"Then what happened..... to your father?"
".....(tearful sigh)..they....the one he attacked...stabbed him with uh...a uh..large knife......when he uh..fell to his knees…another one shot him in the temple...and it splattered all over my mother…..who began screaming...and screaming.......until....they uh..um (chokes back tears)....they..(voice falters)..slit her throat..."
"..Her blood....was everywhere....it ran like ...um...like..a river..as one of the Batarians drug their bodies out the front door, That was the last time...I..I saw either of them (tearfully panting, trying hard not to cry).."
*long pause*
"..what happened after that Maddy...how did you escape?"
"Don't really remember exactly how I got out, but I remember the tears....the lump in throat and in my stomach......and the pure, unbridled rage and hate …..that consumed me like a black hole. I remember making it to the kitchen and finding the knife.."
"What knife?"
"...The 14 inch kitchen knife that my mother had been using just minutes earlier" Iremember picking it up and...the rest is a little blurry"
"well what do you remember from that time?"
"......I just remember using what my father had taught me....and killed every last one of those f***ers…..who had killed my parents......I stabbed them, sliced and hacked at them until I was to weak to hold the knife anymore....or see through the tears, blood and rage.......It was the first time I had ever taken a life." (clears throat and wipes her
eyes)…….I was a different person after that….I felt…different..”
"....I got this scar...across my eye, here...from the last one I killed...he was the only one who tried to fight back....and it reminds...of, uh...what they made me into ...and that whole thing...every time..(sniff, wipes eye)...every time a look in a mirror"
"...How do you feel, Madeline?"
" (sniffs)...Better....I guess.....never told that to anyone…..don't know what good it did telling you though.."
"Sometimes people carry great burdens of pain....bottled up for years and just need to release it....It is a healing process"
"...don't know if I believe that, doc.....sounds like shrink bull**** to me..." (unknown rustling noise)…I don’t think telling’ you is gonna make it all go away..”
“..Well not instantly, no…..I will still take time, how much time…now that depends on you…how long are you willing to let it consume you?…like a “black hole” as you said earlier…”
"...Well...it looks like our time is up.....If you ever need to talk just..."
"..Sure thing, doc...that is just what I want...to come back and sob like a chump and share feelings...this was awkward enough as it was"
"...At least let me know if you still have those nightmares.."
( door opens) "...(sarcastic chuckle)..yeah, sure doc."
(door shuts)
*END OF AUDIO FILE*
Its still a WIP, but that is a different story
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