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Hello there! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips, and I’m glad you could join us for the continuation of our four-part discussion of traditional “scoring-to-picture” techniques within a video game project. We’ve been examining the music needs of cinematics, cutscenes, and trailers, with an eye towards pinpointing specific goals that music can achieve. Those goals include:
- Characterization
- Information
- Identity
- Narrative
In our previous articles we thought about how music can accentuate the believability and importance of characters, and how music can help players absorb and digest information. So let’s move on to the third item on our list of goals: