Choosing Music

     Hello! Today my group and I chose the music and discussed other sounds for our film. Since the movie that we are creating is a horror movie, we want to use more creepy and scary sounding songs. We need to find songs that have a creepy connotation to them so that we can easily set the the correct tone of the film. We also need to choose songs that have the correct energy for certain scenes. By this I mean that we need to find songs that are loud and fast paced for scenes with high action such as some of the death scenes and chase scenes. And we need to find songs that are more slow and mysterious and ominous for scenes of suspense. Due this week being busy with Thanksgiving, my group and I weren’t really able to get together and research music so we all did it separately and then texted each other songs that we liked. One artist that we were considering using in our film was Rob Zombie. Rob Zombie has created many creepy hard rock songs that could fit into our film. His music was also in multiple other films such as Bride of Chucky and House of 1000 Corpses. We think that some if his songs would be a perfect fit for our film. We still need to email him about using his songs in our film before we download them.

   My group and I also discussed sounds that we would like to put in our film. When we film outside we want to add more nature sounds such as and owl hooting or crickets chirping. We also may need to pre-record some sounds such as screams to that they show up better in the film. We are still researching some songs that are more slow in rhythm and have a more mysterious, creepy tone to them. For this we may just go on YouTube and search up songs and then convert them to a MP3 file as a sound. For these songs, we want to have a lot of pianos and violins playing because we think that this instruments have more creepy sounds to them. We still need to send emails allowing us to use these songs. In order for us to do that we might have to ask our teacher how to correctly and appropriately send an email to a musician when asking for a song because we never learned how. We also don’t want to come across as rude.