Music selection

There is a choice of horror and high uplifting soundtracks that we can choose from. Within discussion between me and my group members, we have acknowledge all the paths we can choose and due to our theme of the project, we have a wide diversity in which has made it harder to choose from.

For a gangster themed movie, we have decided to go for a bit of ambiance within the scenes of the trailer in which we will try to grab the audiences attention. Such themes with horror will assist our trailer as this would satisfy the needs of the sinister atmosphere.

In addition to that prospect, we plan to add an overall background music to the film with songs such as:

Kasabian Club Foot

The choice selection was overall made from Sam Harvey, he has discussed upon how this song theme could lead to give the trailer a gritty theme. Although gritty-ness may be one of the slight themes we are aiming for, I have disagreed to the whole idea as the song wasn't as face pace as I wanted it to be. Although it may havea great riff intro, the chorus is slightly off handed.

The XX Intro 

The first impression that I gave off this music intro was that it felt it was too slow and too calming, the fact that the song was created by a indie rock band seemed to make the overall theme was at least a bit bland.
Soon after, when all the clips where combined, I saw an immediately collaboration with both the scenes and the lyrics. The soothing effect had seemed to built an exasperating lead to the main action introduction where much of the violence were forwarded till the end.
I honestly felt that the intro was the perfect fit and that no other song or theme would be able to replace it after viewing the collaboration due to the fact that most of the serene scenes were at the beginning.
One of the main advantages of using the theme was that the sound volume was moderately low in the original in which allowed the audience to hear the monologue speech by the main protagonist (Nathan Cole).
The theme is also an instrumental whcih allows the monologue to be heard more clearly.

Cigarette smoke - Arctic Monkeys 

There was a connection between this and the scenes of violence as well as there was connections between the visuals and the lyrics.
We as a group all favored this song for the action part of the trailer, it was one of the most fitting soundtracks that we all found.

There tune of the harmonics was repeated over and over again to which created a riff (repeated rhythm). I understood that getting a riff in the audience's mind would lead to them to repeating the song over and over again. The tune was remotely catchy to all of us members as well were humming the song within our heads, this eventually  made us think that a constant repeat theme would be useful so that the trailer would also be stuck in an audiences head.

Gorillaz - Dirty Harry  

Dirty harry by the Gorillaz (industrial rock) was understood as a theme that could work  r not
Although the song had the correct lyrical-visual establishment
The gun-shot at the beginning was also a great way of introducing things
However, the fact still remained that it was too jazzy for the film trailer, the voice behijd the music was also a bit too relaxing and not harsh enough to put that demanding effect to our audiences.
Overall, the tone was too joyful and harmonious, this didn't fit in with the whole idea of enforcement, violence and anger.