Music creation for Her Decision
The filmmakers wanted to select several acoustic songs to play during the film's final scene where the main character prepares for a date. They recorded acoustic performances from two vocalists and a guitarist to have options to choose from. The songs were chosen to be recognizable and appealing to the intended female audience, with lyrics about love to fit the film's theme. The filmmakers haven't yet decided which tracks will be used but will analyze that choice once made. Audio was directly captured from the performers and tested to ensure high quality recording onto a disk for later downloading and access on a laptop.
1. Music creation for Her Decision
Above, Matty Race-Jones (guitarist and vocalist) and Wesley Clark (lead
vocalist) performed an acoustic set so that we had several acoustic tracks to
chose from for our end scene.
2. We wanted to create an acoustic sound for our last scene where our actress would prepare in the
kitchen for her final date. We found an acoustic sound would be appropriate as it wouldn’t take
the focus off of our actress, Katie and would be more of a neutral sound for the background.
Because our audience is likely to be mainly female, we chose songs that would be recognisable
and appealing to them so that they could relate to the lyrics. The songs also illustrate the theme
of love that this short film follows. The songs performed include;
-Beautiful Girls – Sean Kingston.
-Let me love you – Mario.
-Firefly – Ed Sheeran.
-Bubbly – Colbie Coillet
We haven’t yet confirmed which tracks we will select for out short film however will analyse our
decision when it’s made.
3. This machine directly picked up the audio from
both vocalists and guitarist. To ensure the sound
burnt onto the disk we pressed play and stop
when appropriate. We also did a test sound
before any recording took place so we knew how
well the machine picked up on the sounds and if
any alterations needed to be made to the
microphone/sound levels. We were then able to
take the CD and download the songs onto our
laptop to then access the tracks.