Music

I have now edited my film. All my shots are in the correct order and follow on from one another nicely. Now that this is complete, the final thing I wanted to do was to add some music to my piece. Music, especially for my short film, is really important partly because my opening two minutes does not include any dialogue, therefore the music needs to make the audience feel they want to continue watching. Secondly, because my film is about dance and involves a lot of movement, I want the music to be in time with the dancers and with every dance style which is being performed. As well as this, music has the ability  to change the mood of a film, so for my coursework, I want to find something upbeat, as this is the mood I want to create for the audience.

Searching for music:
Some of my friends in the class had already added music to their films which I liked the sound of and went well with their openings, so I asked them where they got their music from. They told me about the following website; http://www.jamendo.com/en/ - where you can download free of charge and use unsigned artists music, as long as you state who it is by. After listening to several tracks from this website, I found a artists which I really liked the sound of, named ''Felixjd.'' I put their song ''Make_believe'' over the top of my footage and thought it worked really well.

Original song:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/366748

Editing music:
As the song last for a total of 4:43 and my piece lasts 2:14 I needed to cut the song down to a shorter time length. This was harder to do than first anticipated and took me along time to get correct. I also edited the music so that it would change tempo at appropriate moments which added affect, such as when someone starts dancing for the first time it speeds up. Furthermore, I made the tempo slow down and change nearer the end of the film.