Dinosaurs at Dusk
Original orchestral score · Mirage3D · 2013
Dinosaurs at Dusk is a fulldome planetarium film that takes viewers on a journey back to the era of the dinosaurs. Produced by Mirage3D, the film follows Lucy and her father as they travel through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods — soaring with Quetzalcoatlus and riding alongside Argentinosaurus before witnessing the last day of the dinosaurs. The score was composed by Mark Slater and recorded with the Prague Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra.
From the film
Stills from the fulldome film.
Watch
The HD trailer for the film.
Listen
Selected cues from the score.
Recording in Prague
The score was recorded with the Prague Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra at Smecky Music Studios in Prague — the session fixed by Radek Křižanovský of TRIART Management, and recorded and mixed by six-time Grammy-winning engineer Jan Holzner. The sessions captured the full range of the score, from the sweeping set-pieces of Jurassic Flight and King of the Skies to the delicate father-and-daughter themes and the jazz-inflected Sino-Dino Shuffle.
Two classical arrangements feature too: Handel’s Zadok the Priest, reimagined for the majestic Quetzalcoatlus in flight, and Delibes’ Mazurka from Coppélia, arranged for Lucy and Dad’s comical kite-buggy escape from a stampede.
Credits
Music composed and conducted by Mark Slater.
Prague Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra · Smecky Music Studios, Prague.
Recorded & mixed by Jan Holzner.
Produced by Mirage3D · Written & directed by Robin Sip · 2013.