Me and Jack have been working closely on coming up with ideas for the music for our final film. Seeing that we have not started filming yet and only have very brief ideas on what we want to do, me and jack deemed it appropriate to take a look at the music sequences that we personally love and try and work out why they work so well. Bellow is several videos consisting of me and Jack's favourite thriller music sequence;
I chose the ending sequence to Donnie Darko, one of my favourite films. I also find that the music that goes with the sequence when Donnie meets frank in the bathroom “Manipulated Living” an influence, however this scene truly is a masterpiece and has the effect on me that I want to transfer onto the people that watch our thriller. I especially like how the camera is showing everyone’s perspective at the end of the events that have occurred and how the song is so appropriate for what is happening.
The scene I chose is a huge contrast from Harvey's choice. I decided to go with my favourite scene from one of my favourite films 'Shaun of the Dead'. The scene starts by playing 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen. However this music is Diegetic as it is playing from the jukebox. This music is also very contrapuntal as while it is playing Shaun and his friends are beating an old man to death (because he is a zombie.) However the way they do this adds to the hilarity as they do syncronized motions which almost look like a dance routine. I believe the choice of music really makes the scene as it is a very happy song with an upbeat tempo which is completely out of place in a zombie film, making it pure genius. This scene is guarenteed to make you laugh even if you have seen it already. This use of music has influenced our entire group and we have a few ideas about how we can incorperate contrapuntal music into our own production.
-By Jack Windsor and Harvey Young
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