This document discusses music and sound choices for a short film. It explains that sounds and music help build tension and emotions in media and must be balanced with visuals. Different genres use different sounds, like horror films using eerie ambience building to a scream. The document outlines music choices for different scenes - an opening using soul and Italian music, a meeting scene using tense Italian music associated with "The Godfather," and an upbeat modern soundtrack for a chase scene. It also discusses using ambient sounds and replacing dialogue to construct atmosphere and ensure clarity.

1. Choices of
Sounds And Music
By Zachary Faluyi-Smythe

2. Sounds/Music
Sound and Music choices are just as important as the visuals in an
media product. They help build tension and all sorts of emotions,
feelings etc. balancing the right choices with music and camerawork
may be difficult but imperative nonetheless. Different sounds and
soundtracks are used depending on the genre, for example in an horror
film, eery and quiet ambience are dragged out until a sudden scream is
heard. This is done to make it seem more scary and frighten the
audience
Hopefully in the short film, we will include a diverse set of music/sound
choices that coordinate well with the overall product.

3. Music for the intro scene
• The type of music will be a mix of modern and old
fashioned music , soul/italian. For instance in terms of
soul we will use Bobby Blue Bland "Aint no love in the
heart of the city" as our opening shot. . The songs title
relates to the our short films plot as it implies cynicism
because the protagonist only thinks about himself.
Furthermore the lyrics partially relate to what we will
happen in the short film.
• I am considering using another song for the
opening;Angel by Massive Attack. The songs beat is
more synchronous with the actions on screen that
“aint no love”

4. Music for the Meeting & Chase
scene
The other song we will consider
using in terms of the italian side of
things is the Sicilian heart. This
song will be used in an meeting
scene to set the mood and build
tension. The song is associated
with "the Godfather" one of the
biggest gangster films of all time.
In addition, the modern soundtrack
we will use will be inception`s "
Mombasa" , we will use this due
to reasons that this soundtrack is
upbeat and is suspenseful which
will be an ideal choice for our
chase scene.

5. Sounds
• Not only will we include soundtracks but also other
kinds of sounds such as ambience and non diegetic
sound. This will be in order to build and construct a
certain atmosphere, for instance in the final scene
where a gun fight is supposed to happen, I will import
different sounds of gunfire so that it seems as though a
firefight is happening. I will also place ambient sounds
as sometimes the sounds recorded during filming have
interrupted by unintended noises such as the wind
blowing. I plan to replace the original dialogue with a
dubbed version so the audience can hear more clearly