Soundtrack

Today, we finally found a song that we wanted to use as the non-diegetic soundtrack in our title sequence. The song we found was an acoustic rendition of Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song', which we felt harmonised well with the slower pace of our titles, as well as evoking the time period fairly well. We had the song coming in just as our character went outside and began smoking, and the timings fit together perfectly, so that the vocal kicked in just as the character had lit the match.

Unfortunately, when we showed this to our Media teacher, she felt that the nature of the song when combined with the nature of the film we were creating presented the wrong sort of image and almost promoted drug use. She suggested that we look for a new song, and possibly one with a more contrapuntal and upbeat sound to interest the audience who may find the alternative too slow and boring.

We decided to try and stick with Bob Marley if possible, as we felt his music was highly representative of that era. Whilst searching, we came across the song 'Concrete Jungle', which had a faster pace, and a more motivational sound to it. We placed it alongside the visuals so that it began to fade in just as the character was getting ready, and fortunately the timing of this song also fit well with the song, with the drums kicking in just as the character walks outside.