Music:

In my questionnaire, I asked people "what genre of music would you expect to hear in a social realism opening sequence?". My possible answers were:

• A genre that relates to the year/era of the film
• A genre that relates to the characters (age, appearance, etc)
• A genre that relates to the location of the film
• Other

From this, I gathered that most people would expect to hear music from that time period; however, some people also said that the music should relate to the characters, or even the target audience. With these answers attained, I began searching for music that could easily fit into each of these categories.


When we were given a brief explanation of the task by our media teachers, we were told that we had to use  unsigned artists, and in order to use their music, we would have to get in touch with them; however, if this was not possible, we would have to credit them in some way. We were given a few websites that we could search, but I had someone in mind straight away.

Jose Vanders is one of my favourite artists, and has been for several years. She writes her own music, and possesses an acoustic sound. She isn't very widely known, and although she's incredible, she is still unsigned. I decided to tweet her (on twitter), and waited patiently for a reply. Within about two days, to my disbelief, Jose replied, and allowed me to use her music! This was great news for me, as I already had an idea of the song I wanted to use.


I chose a song called '66.9 miles', which is quite a happy song. This already creates foreshadowing, as the audience could gather from this that the rest of the film is going to be as happy as the opening sequence. The song builds up gradually, which suits my opening sequence perfectly, as the girls are shown waking up, and getting ready (building up, in a sense!). My next task was to open the song in Garageband, and cut it down from 3:04 to 2:00. This was a straight-forward task, as the song is quite repetitive anyway; therefore, I took the end of the song, and brought it further towards the start, in order to shorten it. Once this was complete, it was time to start working on my animatic.