Short: Picking our music

 Hello! As my media group and I progress through our short making journey there are some other elements we need to begin thinking about. One of these being, the music. The music included in a piece of film can drastically change up the feeling or mood that comes across to the viewer. The music can create a build up of suspense or lighten the mood or even create a sense of uneasiness. It can help formulate anything you want when used correctly. Since the short movie that we are making falls under the genre of horror we wanted to make sure when selecting the music we were to put in that it matched with the mood we wanted to make. My group and I via video call began to brainstorm some ideas. We collectively came to the decision to incorporate the song Rob Zombie in the beginning of our short in our intro. We feel as though this has the right vibe we are going for and would really set the tone for the next several minutes. The next thing that came to our minds was that we needed to ensure it was okay that we use this song for copyright reasons. The most simplest way to do so would to contact the artists/their people via email. We haven’t done so yet but we will be in the near future. It is important that we get the okay first that way we aren’t illegally using material that doesn’t belong to us. We haven’t selected all other background music that will be used, but we have some pretty good ideas of options. I think we will be looking for noncopyrighted creepy or spooky music found on YouTube that we can use. These can be used to build up to an important or striking scene in our short or create emphasis on an event. I believe that with the addition of this music is really going to make our movie great. When our editing days come along, having the perfect music is going to make it go from good to great. I cant wait to see how it all comes to together and my whole group and I are very excited to continue on this film making journey.