Music/Sound

When we went to the British Film Institute in December, during the lecture we were told how important sound is for our film opening.

Music in a film can tell a lot about it: it's genre, the atmosphere in the scene... is it happy or sad?

Recently I've been looking into a lot of music for film opening. Of course, our genre is a "drama" and branching off drama there will perhaps be elements of comedy and romance. However, the overall atmosphere of the film is supposed to be emotional, pulling on the heartstring and portraying the hardships of our protagonist.

In this situation, upbeat hip-hop or pop music is very inapproapriate. I've been looking at a lot of musicians that are quite unknown or not mainstream in the slightest.

Here are a few examples:

Asleep - The Smiths
Why Does It Always Rain On Me? - Travis
Call It Off - Tegan & Sara
Delicate - Damien Rice
Creep - ...versions by Radiohead, Scala or Damien Rice
Lua - Bright Eyes

Here are a few videos of the songs...


Lua - Bright Eyes





Call It Off - Tegan and Sara

I just need to discuss music with my other group members and see what would work well with our film opening!

- Ria