Influences/Music: Batman Begins

For the character's journey across the field, carrying on through into the the second Chapter: Disposal we wanted to have a sound bridge score of music, building an emotional and atmospheric tone to the piece keeping the audience fully on board captivating their feelings. As a group we sat and browsed through various films which we believed to have strong musical soundtracks that stand alone. We watched various scenes from different films including, Hitchcock's Topaz, The Brave One, Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Pale Rider, Mongol and Batman Begins. Reviewing the film's we had watched we realised that not all pieces of music can be related to or fit in with any genre accordingly, but one of the soundtracks caught our attention, and that being from Batman Begins, the Christopher Nolan Film.

This piece of music is enchanting and brings a sorrowful feel to the scene it accompanies in Batman Begins being the death of Bruce's parents and the music is used to enhance the sadness of the loss. We browsed a copyright free music website (http://www.freeplaymusic.com/) for various tracks with similar sound tracks, searching under the following catergories:

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  Atmospheric


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  Ambient


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  Downtempo


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  Cinematic


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  Classical


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  Drama


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  Gothic/Industrial


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  Operatic

After listening to various pieces of music we found one track that was of high quality composure and gave the same emotional feeling to Batman soundtrack 'Barbastella'. This soundtrack has the ability to gain an emotional interaction with our audience and to further enhance their viewing pleasure.




Peter McLaughlin