For the music I decided to use Taylor Swift's song Love Story as it tied in nicely with my research on her music videos. It's also easily recognised, coming #4 in the Billboard Hot 100. The lyrics also can apply to the narrative of my story, taken from wikipedia, Taylor Swift said:
"This is a song I wrote when I was dating a guy who wasn't exactly the popular choice. His situation was a little complicated, but I didn’t care. I started this song with the line, 'This love is difficult, but it's real.' When I wrote the ending to this song, I felt like it was the ending every girl wants to go with her love story. It's the ending that I want. You want a guy who doesn’t care what anyone thinks, what anyone says. He just says, 'Marry me, Juliet, I love you, and that's all I really know.' It's sort of told in a character kind of thing, where it's Romeo and Juliet, and it's not me saying that I'm getting married or anything...but I think it's fun to write about it."
In my short film, the male character isn't the "popular choice" which is why the female's father stops them from seeing each other. Despite wanting that "love story ending" my film doesn't end in that way and instead has an unexpected sad departure of the two characters.
However, I'm not using Taylor Swift's version of her song. On YouTube I found a beautiful piano version of her song by someone called TruePiano1. I asked permission to download it and use it in my short film and he granted it.
Here is his version of it:
I thought I could keep the music choice of Love Story consistent throughout but change the instruments playing it. Luckily, I had a friend and his sister (Matt and Rebecca) who are musical and could play Love Story on guitar. I'm hoping that Rebecca will also sing the end verse of the song which goes:
"I got tired of waiting, wondering if you were ever coming around,
My faith in you was, fading,
Then I met you on the outskirts of town ..."
I think this adds to the solemness of the end of my film when Jonny is looking for Shannon. It can also be interpreted that this is how Shannon feels and we get to see her point of view in this situation.
Though it isn't really music, I'm hoping to try and find a horror film sound effect for in the cinema which will help to make the scene more realistic. For the sound effects, I'm looking on the website http://www.freesound.org/ which has many effects availible for download. I've found a few files which I'm going to download and because the site is free I need to mention the creators name in the credits of my film.
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