A desperate woman tries to make sense of the supernatural occurrences bringing chaos to her young family. Things take a turn when the midwife pays a visit.

Living in the horror/thriller genre, the score for The Midwife experiments with the stylistic troupes synonymous with those styles as well as contemporary sound design and textures.

I used a musical cryptogram to generate the motif of Michael, the notes F-B-C-Ab-A-E-Eb producing an innocent yet haunting melody.

I had the opportunity to really play around with textures and sounds and using sounds like a baby doppler, a bicycle wheel being bowed, scratchy sounds from a child’s cello and a long bench being dragged across a school gym.

The opening titles combines most of these compositional elements, inviting the audience to the sound world and building expectations on what might come next…

Directed by Ryan Gage, Marta Baidek.
Produced by Tiffany Ceri.
Edited by Andrew Corsi.