Music

We had many different ideas and options for our music, we wanted it to be upbeat, exciting and for it to sound modern so would be more relatable for the target audience. We decided the perfect piece of music to use in our film would be the well known song; "Love is Easy" by Mcfly. However due to copyright reasons we had to contact them and get permission. Despite trying to contact them through Email, Twitter and Facebook, we were unsuccessful in receiving a response to we had to find an alternative. We had several different options we'd found on freeplaymusic, such as; "Wake Up" and "I can do it." However we chose not to use this in the end as it didn't fit as well as the pieces we settled with.

The first piece of music in our teen angst we used was called; "Clear." We used this in the title sequence of our film when the two sisters are getting ready for school. We chose this song because it is upbeat and exciting so would engage the audience immediately. It also fit with the pace of our film and fit well with the idea of them getting ready. We got the idea to make our music upbeat and fast-pace from; Angus, Thongs and Perfect snogging. They used the song; "She's so lovely" by Scouting for girls. This song is popular with the female audience, is well known and fast-pace. It straight away engaged the audience and is a positive song, We wanted our music to have the same effect by drawing the audience in and having a cheerful sounding song so they feel like they're enjoying themselves.


http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search.aspx?q=clear

We then used our second piece of music is called; "Loving everything I find." This song is still upbeat but slightly slower and quieter, this went well with our opening scene. The song sounds very stereotypical of a teen angst which would be familiar to many of the audience and keep them interested, it also sounds like a love song which straight away connotes that Peter will be the 'love interest' or 'crush' within  this movie. This is a stereotypical connotation of a teen angst so used the music to represent this. We got this idea from our research of teen angsts. In Mean Girls when Cady first meets Aaron they use the same technique by using a romantic music playing the background. It is foreboding for the plot and relationship between the two characters.

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search.aspx?q=loving%20everything%20i%20find

We also used sound effects in our film. For example at the beginning we use an alarm sound to add to the realism of our teen angst. This will also be relatable to the target audience who will most likely have a similar alarm to wake them up for school.