Music and dialogue

My group and I have each discussed multiple ideas for music we should use throughout our piece, each giving equal contribution. This was one of the areas of production that our group had not fully researched, therefore we drafted ideas together and tested them with the animatic before shooting.

Two films that come to mind when finding the most effective uses of music are 'American Psycho' and 'Reservoir dogs'. Each film uses music to juxtapose the nature of the scene, signifying the character in shot is either disturbed and calm about a gruesome or horrific situation. This use of music is very relevant to our own project as 'Joseph' is a very disturbed character whose radical nature drives the plot line at the opening of the film. Therefore we are considering using a feel-good and light-hearted track for Joseph to listen to whilst finalizing the bomb and carrying it into school.. Furthermore, this choice of music is different to the music used in most modern thrillers; breaking the stereotype.

We have also decided on using another atmospheric track to create a more suspenseful and thrilling tone. This will be played all the way throughout the opening as it is completely non-diagetic and has no relationship with the music Joseph is listening to. During editing and drafting we will decide on a final choice for which song we will use, but for now we have rough ideas to build on when the time comes.