This document provides an analysis of the soundtrack from the video game The Last of Us. It describes a cutscene where Joel comes home to find his daughter, only to have to shoot an intruder. They then flee the city but encounter soldiers who are ordered to kill them, resulting in Joel's daughter being fatally shot. Three production techniques are identified as being used to create specific soundtrack elements: sad music along with dialogue to set a sad and chilling mood; screaming and growling noises to represent the infected; and footsteps to advance the narrative of characters moving through scenes.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN
Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games
Game Title The Last of Us : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIW0QNIo1x8
Provide detailed descriptions from chosen examples that establish… Clearly state what production technique(s) you think have
been used to create specific soundtrack elements
Setting This Cut scene is set in Texas during an infectious outbreak that causes them to act
like zombies but are not dead.
Screaming growling other non-human noises
Mood This cut scene in my opinion is the sadist cut scene in a game ever, it can send a chill
through the players body and
Sad music along with dialogue
Game genre Third person action adventure Foot steps
Narrative Joel comes home to his daughter late a night, she then goes to bed to wake up to an
explosion whilst looking for her dad in an empty house her dad bursts in through a
door then looks for something and tells her to stay away from the window, a couple
of seconds later a man bursts through the backdoors and joel shoots him dead. The
on there way out of the city later on through the intro to the game they head up a
dirt path to try and get away from the city they then come across a soldier who
saves them from the infected chasing them and call to his commander who then
tells him to kill them, the soldier tries to say no and says “but there’s a little girl” but
the commander orders him to kill Joel and Sarah he goes to shoot and offloads a
couple of rounds us thinking that their ok Tommy Joel’s brother shoots the soldier
in head and to there shock Sarah has been shot and as Joel is trying to save her she
dies due to fatal gun wounds.
Sad music, dialogue, childs cries of pain.