Film Score
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The Sky Came Down
SATB Chorus and Orchestra
Duration: 6:19
“The Sky Came Down” (Film Score for the film The Sky Came Down) The Tornado of 1912 devastated the city of Regina, Saskatchewan June 30, 1912, at approximately 4:30 p.m. as it tore a swath through the residential area between Wascana Lake, Victoria Avenue and the downtown business district. Historically it still remains the deadliest tornado in Canadian history estimated at F4 on the Fujita scale. Reports indicate 28 people lost their lives, hundreds were injured, 2,500 people were left homeless, 500 buildings were destroyed or damaged and property damage quantified at C$1.2 million took well over forty years before the private and public debt incurred to rebuild and repair was repaid. Inspired by this historical event I set out to write a film score and produce a short film that would commemorate the event. Filmed in rural Saskatchewan to capture the vast openness and beauty of the prairies also reminiscent of early Regina, the film allows the audience to experience the majestic yet devastating force of the wind through a dramatic, programmatic, symphonic journey combining landscape, dance, computer graphics and archival photos expressing artistically and musically fear, catastrophic devastation and raw human emotion.
The film received two International Awards, Best Overall Production – Reel Rave International Film Festival, September 2013; Award of Merit – Best Shorts Competition, April 2013 and nominee Golden Sheaf Awards, May 2013.