Music/Transcript

This is the transcript of "Music," the third part of The Making of Heavy Rain.
==Transcript==
(An Origami Murder Bird appears on a white background, and black ink runs down to reveal the phrases "THE MAKING OF HEAVY RAIN" and "MUSIC.")
(Video footage of David Cage plays. The caption "David CAGE: Writer & Director" appears.)
David Cage: In an experience like Heavy Rain, I believe the music plays a very, very important role, and we-we know that, but we rediscover that in each game, and, um, actually, we believe that music is probably about 50 percent - if not more - of the impact of the images.
(Video footage of an orchestra setting up plays.)
(Video footage of David Cage plays.)
Cage: The biggest challenge with that - with music in a title like Heavy Rain - is the nonlinear nature of the piece. So many actors told us that it was like a work of three to four movies, and, uh, regarding the music, it's exactly the same: as much work as three to four movies because of the nonlinearity of the game. Um, so at the same time you got big volumes to record at the same time you want to keep the same intention, the same intensity, the same emotion in every single track and in the game, so that, that's what the focus has been so far and I'm really pleased with the result.
(Video footage of Normand Corbeil plays. The caption "Normand CORBEIL: Composer & Conductor" appears.)
Normand Corbeil: It's... it was a bit, you know, um... bit difficult at the beginning... but at the same time easy because I knew David before. So I know, I-I know what he likes and what he doesn't like, so it, for me, you know, it's a good start, you know, when you're, you-you already have, you know, a relationship with a director, you save time.
(Video footage of Normand Corbeil conducting the orchestra plays. The caption "ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS: Studio 1" appears.)
(Video footage of Normand Corbeil plays.)
Corbeil: The job is not to, to build something that is not there. Everything is there - all the picture, all the details, all the, you know, the faces, the emotion, the reaction of everybody - so you just have to-to work as a movie, you know, to be there just to, maybe, put a bit more focus about, you know, what you should expect on that scene or something like that, but I think, I think in the music it... uh, it's-it's something because for somebody, sad is something; for somebody else, sad is another thing. So it's very difficult that it... I, I would say, you know, as Stravinsky said, that it's not really... it's not the, um... it's not you that you will express something by the music; it's the music itself that-that will express something.
(Video footage of David Cage plays.)
Cage: In a process like Heavy Rain there are some milestone moments, and definitely being here at Abbey Road is one of them. So when-when I wrote the script, um, I certainly had notes and soundtracks in my mind, uh, which, most of the time, is not what you listen to at the end, what you get, but it's definitely better, what I hear here today, uh, with a real orchestra, and I think it makes a huge difference to have real musicians and a real orchestra and real composer behind this game.
(Video footage of Normand Corbeil conducting the orchestra plays. The video fades to black.)
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