Creation of a Short Film : Music...Music...Music

Although film is primarily seen as a visual experience, the importance of sound within a film should not be underestimated, a meaningful sound track can be as complicated as the images on screen, and can create an direct effect from the audience. I have created a short video of me discussing my music choice, from how I reflected on my AS piece and chose purposefully not to involved dialogue but to create a silent film, how I decided to compose my own music (well asked my friend Alex to compose a piece for me), the things that I had to give to him in order for it to be compossed so well as to match the action on screen and finally how I feel that the music that I now have helps to reflect the more European slow pace film that I was setting out to create rather than the fast paced, big budget Hollywood film.

Creation of a Short Film : Gaining Inspiration From Music....

So I was in the car with mum drifting into my own world after a busy day shopping when the Beatles song 'Another Day' came on and I screamed (no joking I really did scream) "this is exactly how I want my protagonist former life to be portrayed". The song was written by Paul McCartney, below are the lyrics which really made me think this is so similar to life I'm try to portray of Jenny, whereby she is living like clockwork in a bubble of money and unhappiness and it is not until the mysterious male leaves her shoes that the spell is broken and she experiences a different form of life one where she can "take a minute to stop and stare"

Every day she takes a morning bath, she wets her hair,
Wraps a tow'l around her as she's heading for the bedroom chair,
It's just another day.
Slipping into stockings, stepping into shoes,
Dipping in the pocket of her raincoat.
It's just another day.

At the office were the papers grow, she takes a break,
Drinks another coffee and she finds it hard to stay awake,
It's just another day
It's just another day
It's just another day.

So sad, so sad,
Sometimes she feels so sad.
Alone in her apartment she'd dwell
Till the man of her dreams comes to break the spell.

This has really made me then think to past history, and how throughout all of history women have faced this feeling on entrapment whether this is in accordance with the new "business" women status, whereby they feel trapped to prove that they can do it all perfectly or in the past where although not in the work place women still felt trapped at home, with the pressure of having to be the perfect mother, housewife and partner, to look perfect, to be kind and to always have food on the table, clean clothes on the children. To leave with a lasting thought here is the video alongside lyrics on 'Another Day'...