Music for my Project

Music for Target

Initial Ideas

I would like to try and use something that grabs the attention of the audience and I will achieve this through something that it quite dark and mysterious. I would like to use a haunting style of music because it suits the genre of film I'm making. I have found a website that has a range of loyalty free music that I could possibly use and last lesson I had a listen to some of the music that has been uploaded to the website. Some of it wasn't going to work and some of could've worked but it wouldn't have fit with the story.

When listening to the music I imagined what would be going on and I painted a picture in my head. Some of the music I listened to sounded as if it was from a sci-fi film, the kind of music you would hear if someone was in space. I did find some music that would fit but it went on for about 5 minutes and my opening credits won't last as long as that so I will have to edit this. Fortunately, I am relatively confident with editing music because I know a program, 'Audacity', that I'll be able to edit this on.

Here are some of the ideas I came up with from the music I listened to:

A constant drum beat, normally a snare drum with a repetitive rhythm - This is quite effective because it grabs your attention. Normally, a lone drum sounds like someone going to war or problems that are going to occur.

Low sounding instruments - the lower the pitch, the more suspense built. When I was listening to the music I could hear lots of low instruments which would work to build tension. The low sounds are associated with falling and things starting to go wrong.

Eventually, a melody or a higher pitch instrument would be introduced - this also built tension and the high pitch instrument with the low basses sounds very out of place which gives it a feeling of sickness and insecurity.

All of theses techniques combined made the music sound like it was hiding something dark and this is the kind of feel that I want to create in my project.

This is the website I used to find some appropriate music. I searched for Action and then a piece appeared that was called 'The Escalation' which used all of the effects I listed.

http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/