Music Planning

 As much as I would love to incorporate a song I truly love, which I also feel would work well within the opening, like an Elliot Smith song, it turns out that getting permission to use a copyrighted song is more of a headache than I previously understood, so today I'll be deciding on what music to use in my film opening.

(RIP these two bangers)

While scrolling through bensound.com, a royalty-free music database, I discovered this gem:

"Sleepless" by Diffie Bosman captured me when I first heard it. It's ambient, somber, and reflective, and sounds like your listening to it played in a giant dining hall. It honestly reminds me of some of Thom Yorke's solo ambient stuff like "Dawn Chorus".

 I can just imagine having this play over the title card after the poem is read, and I know it would work great. Thank you, Mr. Bosman for creating this absolutely beautiful piece of music.

As for the more eerie, sinister sounding music to go over the poem that Belle reads at the very beginning, I believe bensound also has us covered. Me and JD were looking for something unsettling, atmospheric, and dissonant.

"Hollow Eerie Whispers" by FoePound is very atmospheric and unnerving, and it can serve as a template for layering more suspenseful dissonant sounds. For example, samplefocus.com offers a bunch of royalty free suspenseful, fiercing sound effects to layer.

Overall, I feel excited to have finalized our music choices and I can't wait to actually get some footage to edit on top of it! I'm happy with our choices and excited to see how the music and footage clash together later on.