Music, music, music

Unfortunately, we had a substitute teacher today (the universe is not on our side), so we could not get our teachers approval for our idea. That means we won’t be able to get our story approved until Friday, and because of this, we didn’t want to finalize anything today without this approval. So, this left us in a difficult situation, because we knew we needed to be going further in our research, but this was limited if our idea was not solidified. But, we were able to find something productive to do today, and something that is essentially vital to our opening: music. 

Like I’ve said countless times, we really want to focus on audio and sound effects as well as visual components (but mostly audio because of our low budget). So, my partner and I took all class today to find music for our opening. We also came up with character backgrounds, but not too in-depth because we wanted to finalize our story first. We wanted to find music that symbolizes and represents our characters personality. We want our main character to like more grunge/rock music than their siblings who enjoy more indie/pop music. We thought we could emphasize their different personalities through music in the opening, when we envision to show them each getting ready. We both wanted to look for royalty free music first before delving into our favorite songs, simply because the emailing process to get the rights to use the song would be a bear. Luckily, my partner found a website called uppbeat.io that had a vast library of royalty free music in countless genres. So, we went searching, and although it took a while, we found two songs we really like. They are symbolic of the characters differing personalities, and we pretty much have an idea on how to incorporate them into the opening. But, we will still continue casually searching for songs in case we find something EVEN better. 

These are the two songs we found on the royalty free music site. The only problem we are encountering with this site is we may have to pay money to download these songs, either that or purchase a subscription to the actual site. we obviously don't want to do this. So, another option we have is to screen record using our iPhone and save that video as an MP4. This is a little less professional, granted, but it has the same result as the first option, and we will only use this if we cannot find a way to download the songs without paying.