Music planning for our trailer

"Music is a universal language. It inspires common human feelings and bridges gaps between cultures that spoken languages cannot. It brings people together and creates universal community.Music inspires and evokes emotion in a healthy way. It touches our emotional being and evokes moods and feelings that are sometimes difficult to express. It can change a difficult mood and make it happy or excited; it can change a light mood and take it deeper and more profound."

Me and my team member decided that it was inevitable that music would be used in our trailer as we feel it's crucial in creating ambiance and tension. However, when we searched various songs we couldn't find one that would be appropriate for our trailer; tense yet provocative.  We have decided that we are going to use Garage Band to create a piece of music or sound that is appropriate and fully fitting for our film. We will do this in the editing stage of our work because once we have all the footage in the right order it'll be easier to work out what sounds and music will be relevant.

We toyed with the idea of using music from the band The Cinematic Orchestra. Initially we really liked the mechanical sounds at the begining however we soon came to relaise there was not enough tension in this peice and it never seemed to heighten or esculate. It only become more jazz like and relaxing. We started to research other music...

Me and my partner both studied English at GCSE level together. As part of one of our coursework tasks we studied the film Vanilla Sky. We both recall the music by radio head being quite eerie, mechanic and alternative. This is enough option for us to possibly use.

This is the music used in the Obsessed trailer that we resarched. It was very interesting to recognise some of the sounds out of this music but other layers like the singing and some of the actual melody had been dubbed out. We soon realised that we could edit bits out of peices of music that we found that were perfect up until a certain point. After finding this we then went on to research otherDavid Gahan Music.

The initial soud in this song was exactly what we were looking for, something quite techno and mechanical sounding. However the artist began to sing so i researched the music's lyrics and found that this peice was even more perfect than we'd initially realised.

"I scattered the pictures

On the bedroom floor
I should have told you
Oh, many times before

I should have listened
When you were mine
It could be too late
I've already crossed the line

My angel
When you are whispering in my ear
You have nothing to fear"

This is very apparopriate as this could be interpreted as Isabella singing this song about Martin. As an alternative choice to this if we felt that the singing was too much we found an instrumental version of the song to work with. We're very excited to edit this music into our project and see if this works better than the The Cinematic Orchestra's piece.

Because our film is a thriller we have researched into using a heart beat sound clip to dub into either the scene where Martin recieves the picture of Isabella and Anna walks in or when Martin and Isabella are engaging in their sexual liason. We don't want this to sound overly non diegetic so we will edit this in and see if it descreases the realism of the trailer dramatically.