Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Our read · Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · adventure · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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