Music Research

This is a selection of the types music choices from similar opening sequences that we can consider using in our opening:

Forest Gump:

Forest Gump uses quite slow, peaceful,composed piece of music which is similar to to a lullaby. I think that Forest Gump used this type of music because of the floating feather going throughout most of the scene, because the feather looks quite peaceful and it floats down very slowly. I think this kind of music could work in our opening sequence because the beginning of our sequence will be panning around a park which could suit the track in Forest Gump. Although the only problem I have with it is if we use this track, it will give the impression that our film is a twee, feel-good movie when its actually a dark comedy.

Shallow Grave: 

Shallow Grave uses very upbeat club music that is also composed by the film. I think Shallow Grave used this music because the camera work is very fast and hectic so they needed a track that would suit it, it would have looked weird if they used a slow track with fast filming. I'm not sure a track like this would work in our opening sequence as we haven't planned our filming to be very fast at all so it might not work with really upbeat music. Although if we do decide to use it with some fast images, it could excite the audience and get their adrenaline going which would be a success. 

 

The Double: 

The Double uses no music at all. I think this is quite effective because you can hear the train noise and other surrounding sound which makes the audience feel like they're in the atmosphere of the movie. This way they can connect to the film and get hooked into the scene even when nothing much is really happening. I think no music could work it our opening sequence because we can get the surround sound of the park which is mainly rustling tree's into the scene; also our opening sequence is very similar to The Double because the main character also starts sitting down. Although I think no music would only suit to a certain type of audience. Thrill seekers may find no track quite boring, although we weren't planning on thrill seekers being our target audience.