Day: March 18, 2019

Posted in All Posts, Post Production

Don’t You (Forget About Music)

Posted on by rebeccaawolff

When selecting the music for my title sequence, I knew I wanted to go with an 80’s sounding rock track. This choice was inspired by several films, including The Breakfast Club (1985) and The Edge of Seventeen (2017).

  • The Breakfast Club
  • The Edge of Seventeen

The Breakfast Club used the song “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds. This is the perfect example of a coming-of-age film that knows how to pick a soundtrack. It contains the perfect amount of angst and indecisiveness that the rest of the film conveys and ties everything together. I want to accomplish something like this with my film, which is difficult to do considering I don’t have the talent to write my own song. As for The Edge of Seventeen, I fell in love with the opening song “Who I Thought You Were” by Santigold. It’s so lively and fun and fits the constant motion of the opening perfectly. My opening is also fast paced so I needed to pick a track that could keep up.

album art for “Bad Reputation”

After much deliberation, I decided to go with “Bad Reputation” by Joan Jett. It hits all of my requirements: Rock? Check. From the ’80’s? Check. Fast paced? Check. Fits my story? Check. The song is about not caring about your reputation and doing whatever you want. It’s very care-free and sort of ironic for the scene because the character is clearly distressed. It has a very adolescent-edgy vibe that I consider perfect for the story I’m trying to tell. It also foreshadows a future challenge in my character will face, which is overcoming the idea of a reputation and what people think of you. Now that I’ve selected my music I will begin the process of sound editing and mixing! This is the part of my project I’m most anxious for, so I’m going to have to do a lot of research on how rtf actually do it.

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