Sunday, February 6, 2011

in dreams

david lynch - blue velvet - 1986

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film




opening - blue velvet / man watering yard and dog / drone and camera goes underground




stairway and hallway, ambient sounds (repetition of notes in background / melody)



 rossellini apartment, ambient sounds (melody repetition in background)



 dream after leaving rossellini apartment



 industrial music, driving with thunder


music - angelo badalamenti
roy orbison (in dreams) , julee cruise (mysteries of love), ketty lester (love letters),
bobby vinton (blue velvet)
sound design - alan splet

(the score makes direct quotations from shostakovich's 15th symphony, which lynch had been listening to regularly while writing the screenplay * **)