Pre-Production Planning-Music by Holly and Freya

Band of Horses-The Funeral
We wanted to include music at the end of our short film, when Jake is sad and realises he has to attend his best friends funeral.  This music is to go along with the final scene along with the credits.  Just a small idea:

• Also, Jake is listening to music on his ipod at the beginning. I though it would be good for the music to be boyish, upbeat and chaotic with an underlying sadness. This underlying sadness would hopefuly become relevent later on when the audience realises why Jake is so upset, but at the beginning should just throw them off; a typical teenage boy listening to chaotic rap.

 Jamie T-Mans Machine

The chorus:

Stone glass, concrete and gravel

All we've got to keep us together

Stone, glass, concrete and gravel

Maybe one day things'll get better

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• How the song talks about these concrete nouns: stone, glass, concrete and gravel, really gives out an idea that all that's keeping Jake close to others is raw reality.  This relates to us later finding out that his friends whole existence is not real, meaning that nothing is keeping them together anymore. 
• The song also talks of 'maybe one day things'll get better', suggesting that right now things aren't great.
• In one of the verses I really liked a certain lyric:

'I'm a lover, I'm a brother, my son
I'm a traitor and I'm on the run'

• The way he speaks of being a brother could be associated with him being incredibly close to another boy, in an almost brother like fashion.  For the lyrics 'I'm a traitor and I'm on the run' we could have him listening to this as he runs down the stairs, ready to leave.  He's a traitor because his mother is so worried about him but he doesn't care, just converned about leaving to be 'on the run'.

'Caught up in the man's machine 
Well it seems even if I go away 
There's always a part of me willing to stay '

• This 'man's machine' connotes every traditionally male trait being enclosed in one being, suggesting that Jake is very manly: tough and unemotional, despite going through this traumatic experience.  This could suggest that he's going through a hard time, desperately trying to remain manly while going through so much pain.
• The second part of this verse 'Well it seems even if I go away, there's always a part of me willing to stay' could reflect that even though Harry is dead, 'there's always a part of' him-his spirit-'willing to stay' because of his friendship and love for Jake.

• This music track would be good in the short film as the non-diegetic sound track at the end of the film when we realise that Harry is dead and it is his funeral Jake has to go to and also when the end credits appear. In between the end credits we will also have photos of Jake and Harry appearing to show them together and happy. 
• The sound track is meloncholic and i think will help set the sad, emotional mood that ends the film.