Selecting the Music

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Friday 13 April

 There are two pieces of music that we need to include in our film:
1. A light upbeat tune for the introductory scene (like in the Undateables)
2. A retro sounding theme to give a creepy vibe to the final scene and the credits.

 1. Light, upbeat tune

 To find this song, we searched through some royalty free music sites. The best that we found was www.purple-planet.com
This site allowed us to explore songs by theme:

Naturally, we firstly looked at upbeat. Here, we found some really good songs however we felt as though we didn't like the guitar and bass on most of them as it would be too heavy for this particular part of our film.

 We then looked through several other categories such as active, funny and cool before finding our final decision, 'Winter Wonderland'.

 This is a Christmas theme song however the Christmas theme is not noticable in the context of our film. It is light and upbeat and comes to a nice, soft ending that is perfect for our title scene.

 2. Retro, creepy theme

 Our first instinct when looking for this was to use Purple Planet and look under the retro and creepy sections, however, we struggled to find the perfect song on this site and didn't want to settle for a song that we didn't know was perfect.

 I then decided to move on and search on other websites. I found this song, called "Americana":
http://www.smartsound.com/royalty-free-music/Cinematic/Country_Folk/Power+Play/Acoustic+Delight/

 I found this by using a website that allowed me to apply filters to searches for royalty free music. Here, I applied cinematic and country (as our homage to the chilling vibe of Patsy Cline music)

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