Music is a powerful guide to what is happening in the scene. Music within film can set the mood of a particular scene and can introduce important elements of the plot. It also gives the film itself a character and can also inform the audience of the time period in which the film is set. Music is also used within film to make scenes more interesting, rather than just having dialect, diegetic sounds or sound effects. It has also been proven that music has a profound effect on the viewers' emotions and therefore Music Supervisors need to chose songs or produce soundtracks that will provoke the right emotion from the audience in correspondence to what is going on in the scene. For example, if a well liked character dies you would chose a thoughtful/sad song that makes the audience cry or feel upset. Therefore, a successful film should not lack music.
In our film opening we needed thoughtful music but not a song that is particularly sad as that is not the purpose of our film opening. We also did not want the song to be overly 'romantic'. Even though our genre is 'romance' there is also a twist and an element of drama, so a romantic song would not suit the film opening we created. We used a website called 'Bensound' (suggested by one of our classmates).
As we explored the various pages of songs we came across a song called 'Tomorrow'. After playing this song and playing our film opening together we realised this song fitted our film opening perfectly and so we downloaded it and transferred it into Final Cut Pro. We also investigated what rights we had to this piece of music and according to the website as long as we give Bensound credit for the song we can use it free of charge.
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