Sound and Music Planning

We have decided to included the sound 'Bad Reputation' by Joan Jett. This song is very upbeat. We choose this song because it is rebellious, this represents teenagers, therefore the audience may be able to relate. It also gives the audience an insight on the characters behaviour/personality. This song is going to play at the beginning, therefore the audience has insight that the film will be light-hearted and upbeat.

 

We will be adding non-diegetic sound of a car engine turning on and the car wheeling screeching, when driving away, this will emphasise that the boy can drive and is traveling, it will add suspense, as the audience wants to know where the protagonist is headed.

 

A non-diegetic bell will be added when the title appears. This helps with the ellipsis as the bell shows him driving away and then the next shot is of the school, the bell helps show the passing of time. The bell also lets the audience suggest that the setting of the film will be in a high school, this setting is very stereotypical for teen angst films.

 

The second song we decided to use in the opening sequence is 'Fireball' by Pitball, this song is also upbeat and fun, the song is quite comedic and helps to add the humour to the scene.

 

We will be including two voiceovers. This will be by the main character 'Aiden and his love interest (later in the film) 'Kate'. This will helps the audience understand their personalities. We decided to also give 'Kate' a voiceover because this shows her opinion other than just the main character.

With the two songs - 'Bad Reputation' and 'Fireball', these songs are quite upbeat and light hearted/calm and 'Fireball' is quite humorous. Based on my research into other Teen Angst films, such as Easy A and Superbad, the music in both of those films are also upbeat and quite chilled out. Superbad also contains quite humorous music which is why we decided to implement this into our opening sequence.

EDIT: Due to copyright we had to change our two songs to different music which was copyright free. The songs that we used still follow the theme of being upbeat and light hearted.