Music to my Ears

    In almost everything, music can always be heard. When you are in a grocery store, driving a car, buying close, or watching a commercial, music is everywhere. While we considered at one point in time to maybe not use any music at all, we decided that it would be important to use music in our film opening. 

    One main reason for why we chose to use music is that it will be able to help contrast the feelings that Gabriel has when he is playing soccer compared to when he is seeing his parents. We will use more upbeat music when he is playing soccer and when he sees his parents the music will be more somber. 

    Having the beginning sequences of our opening take place outside, having some upbeat music can add to the scenery of being outside with a sunny backdrop and blue skies. It will also help us with balancing out some of the natural sounds that may be heard when filming outside because the sound of the wind may be less focused on and instead people can focus more on the music. Another important ability that the music can do can make parts such as when looking at the credits more entertaining. What is just seeing words on a screen can be turned into a more entertaining fashion because there will be music for people to listen to while looking at the credits. 

    We are allowed to use any kind of music that we want, but the one issue is that we would have to go through the process of emailing production companies in order to get rights to use those songs. Instead, we have chosen to take advantage of the copyright free music that is out there on the internet and use that in our film opening instead. 

    Through websites such as Bensound and Adobe Stock, we were able to find copyright free music that we would like to use. Some of the names of these sounds that we will use in the soccer scene are "moose, high octane, and rumble".