Initial Music Research

Recently I have been gathering various examples of music with my group's feedback in an attempt to help our group to decide on the musical direction our project will take. The tracks below come from a range of sources, and I have chosen them since music with elements of these tracks or of a similar style may suit the mood of the short.

I had initially swung towards an ambient/electronic direction as in my opinion it suits the atmosphere, which is dark, psychological and mysterious. However, due to common conventions, we may use acoustic instruments such as a piano to convey the mood of emotive situations. Currently, I am planning to create the music for our project, so I'm hoping that surrounding myself in music earlier into our projects development will lead to much better results. With our previous opening sequence, the music was an afterthought, and whilst I believe that it fits well with the sequence I did not get a chance to develop it as much as I would have wanted.

After the results of our audience research to considered choosing an alternative genre of music as this may appeal to the audience my group is targeting, however we have since decided that this choice may not be appropriate for the mood of the short film. However some elements of alternative music, such as lesser known instruments may play a subtle role in the soundtrack.

Electronic/Ambient examples