Week 1 - Planning & Research - Soundtrack Ideas

As part of our research and planning we took some time to look at music videos for our soundtrack as we have to develop our own. We discussed as a group what type of music we would prefer as well as looked at films such as Shrek and Enchanted which opened with voice overs to sample the type of music they use. Examples of these can be found in earlier blog posts such as; the shrek video can be found in Week 1- Planning and Research credit sequence. We discussed the option of piano, but thought it may be a bit too boring by itself; so we then looked at making an acoustic piece of music. We then sampled some acoustic music on the GarageBand software we would be using (we did this for the piano aswell) and decided that we liked what we heard.

We then went to the YouTube website and searched for some acoustic music that we already had knowledge of. Here is a youtube playlist that is full of soundtrack ideas, references and inspiration in relation to our children's film opening soundtrack:

Above is a video from the maccabees called toothpaste kisses it has a similar atmospheric feel to what we are aiming for.

Above is another video called gregory and the Hawk Boats and Birds which is again similiar to what we feel our soundtrack should be like however, as a group we felt the music was too gloomy and for a childrens fairytale film we need something up beat. Sarah and Chloe then suggested we look at Mumford & Son's Little Lion Man as it is upbeat and has a good acoustic guitar solo opening:

Overall, we would like our soundtrack to have an acoustic, melodic feel, as well as music that works in an everyday scenario as well as in more fantastical scenes.