The Sound Of Music

today we got the 2 songs we are using and the sound effects that we need ( engine, tires and bell)

after looking into it I found out that we can not use Fireball and Bad Reputation for copyright reasons .

so instead I found 2 songs that are non copyrighted and music from the YouTube creator space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM52KSIE9ww - we will use this when the boys are playing football - instead of fireball

and Bring It Back at the beginning instead of Bad Reputation




originally I thought that Fireball by Pitbull would be an excellent choice for background music from scene 2 onwards as it was upbeat and had a catchy rhythm,  I had heard it on Ellen and it was stuck in my head for ages and also its just a feel good song so it was definitely a good choice. Charlotte watched 10 Things I Hate About You and thought the song they used would work well with scene 1 for our opening. The song was called Bad Reputation by Joan Jett - it was stereotypical teen angst music so it was perfect. After I researched into it further, I found out that we couldn't use these two songs because of copyright reasons. So I looked through the YouTube Creator Space for non copyrighted music under the headings of Rock, Alternative And Punk, Cinematic, Dance And Electronica,  Hip Hop & Rap and R&B And Soul. it took me a good 2 hours to narrow down what I thought would work for our project. In the end I got it down to 6  pieces of music, 3/6 were songs to be used in scene 1, 2/6 were songs to be used in the school in scene 2 and 1/6 was the music used when the boys were playing football in scene 3 . I played them to my group and we decided that we would use the music Bring It Back for scene 1 and Llena de Plena for scene 2&3. Bring It Back starts with a drum roll and then fades into a repeating tune. It has electric guitars and drums, its typical music that a teenager would listen to. Llena de Plena is an incredibly catchy piece of music. It has trumpets and bongos and it reminds me of something you might hear if you went on holiday. although this music is not something teenagers would listen to, it complements the voiceovers and pace of the video. Me and Charlotte both liked it but Ben and Rahib didn't because they said it didn't fit with the teen angst genre. I did think it was risky to use because as they said it wasn't a typical piece of music that teenagers would listen to, however it is catchy and the closest thing to Fireball I could find so we decided to use it.

We didn't add that many sound effects to our project, we used a car engine sound at the beginning when Rahib gets into the car, and right at the end when I get hit in the head with the football. I found this again in the You Tube creator space.