Potential Music

Amanda and Ade: We were searching through YouTube for potential music to have featured in our film. We thought a piano would be a good instrument because it is a solo instrument. Anna is alone and feels isolated through most of the film, linking with the idea of a lonely person playing the piano. We found a slow piano song for the parts of the trailer when Anna is alone: 

The song for when Anna is happy (the beginning of the trailer) we found a gospel song's piano instrumental. Although it has a fast, harsh pace, it is still soft and happy.

Clare: At the beginning of the trailer, we want to use something a lot lighter and happier than the sadder, duller piano, to show the contrast of Anna's life change. We hope to use something that plays alongside her old, good life. Then the music can come to a sudden stop as soon as we hear Anna say "perfect everything" and we witness her sitting in the psychiatrist room. From here onwards the trailer loses that happier sense. Although we don't want to use anything too happy here since we can hear her voice over continued from the psychiatrist room which is a much sadder point, so the tone still needs to be fairly serious, however we want it to be light in other ways so it must have a faster pace than the music that follows.





After the black out, we want the music to create a much more disheartening mood, at a much lower pace. A good example of this is a song I discovered  called 'Point of Disgust - Low'.

The overall theme of this song is dreary and slow, representing Anna's isolated life style. The lyrics also speak:

'Once, I was lost,
to the point of disgust.
I had in my sight
lack of vision,
lack of light.
I fell hard,
I fell fast,
mercy me,
It'll never last'

Since the lyrics are also quite harsh and meaningful, it is relevant and fits in to our theme.

Here are some other songs that are a lot slower in pace and create that dreary, emotional effect.

Clare: All of the above are quite sorrowful and have an emotional impact which will help the audience to connect with Anna's character a lot. Especially "Comptine d'un Autre Été" which was featured in the trailer for the 'Dustbin Baby' and caught my attention because it was such a beautiful piece, and it has also been used in the film Amélie. It has the perfect amount of emotion that we would like to use.

Clare: This is a simple piano piece that is used in a very popular British TV series called 'Skins.' The song is called Zero and is composed by Segal whose music features a lot throughout this series. This piece is based in an episode with a troubled teen called Effy Stoneham, and I knew that something in this style would fit perfectly for our trailer because it is able to represent the feelings that our protagonist encounters. It is slow, but very deep and thoughtful.


Although these songs are useful in depicting a sad mood, it would be even more beneficial for us to discover one song that starts slow and ends a lot faster, to demonstrate both sadness and aggression in tune with the clips we have and to represent the frustration caused in Anna's life. That way, we can easily edit the one song to fit the scenes, by using the sadder, slower parts up until the point where we see Anna being pushed around, and her becoming progressively violent, in which we will use the much more powerful parts that have an increased pace.