Charge
Original hybrid-orchestral score for a Blender sci-fi short, written to picture.
Charge is scored around two leitmotifs that carry the film’s emotional arc. The first is a “man & his machine” theme — a simple, singable G–C–G melody — introduced tense and fragmented beneath the opening action, pulled back to an intimate piano in the film’s nostalgic turn, then opening up triumphant across full brass and strings as the cyborg comes to life. Against it sits a darker robot motif, voiced low on cimbasso, that first appears as a threat and returns transformed in the finale. The score is hybrid-orchestral — built with the BBC Symphony Orchestra plugin, layered percussion, and synths for the robot’s point of view against pure orchestra for the man’s — with shifting tempo and meter (7/8 for the robot’s coldness, 5/8 for the moment it “breaks”) driving the aggressive sections before resolving into a warm, hopeful close. Written custom to the director’s spotting and mixed to sit under the film’s existing dialogue and SFX without ever swallowing them.



