Final Project Week 1: Music and Sound

 02/01/2024

    Welcome back to the planning phases of our project and we have moved on to my favorite part, the music. Just to give a few updates on some of the details we have fleshed out since my last post, we have decided on the title of "Miss Sarasota" to reference where the story is taking place since it is a major plot point. We also decided how we would use the mall in some of our scenes. We are going to use it as a hangout spot for the two girls and use the emptiness to our advantage for some interesting shots(I am also pretty sure it is a stereotype that teenagers hang out at abandoned places so it fits!). There is also a mural in the mall of a postcard that says "Welcome to Sarasota, Florida" and we wanted to use that as a part of our title card with our main characters in front of it. Anyway to the main topic of this post, the music. I always have so much fun picking out music and after discussing a skeleton script of the film we decided we needed two main songs for a scene of our main character getting ready and for a song the two characters jam out to and the same song will also be used as a sort of theme that will play over the title card. My group and I made a playlist of potential songs that all fit the aesthetic we were going for, we then all sat down together and listened through all the songs and took notes on how we thought they would fit. For the getting ready scene we wanted a slower more somber song to highlight the mental state of the main character especially when she is alone so we picked the song "De Selby (Part 1)" by Hozier (we might have been a little biased since we all over this artist and Hannah and I are going to see him live this year but still an amazing song). Now for the car song we wanted a more upbeat song that had lyrics that fit with the plot and we landed on "House of Gold" by Twenty One Pilots. Twenty One Pilots is a group that is very nostalgic for the whole group since they were very popular during our middle school years and we all remember listening to them back then. Hannah also pointed out that the lyrics, "Let's say we up and left this town/ And turned our future upside down/ We'll make pretend that you and me/ Lived ever after happily," fits very well with our plot point of leaving your hometown and moving forward with life. If you are interested I included my playlist below of all the other songs we were considering. Until the next post! 

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