Screaming and Crying

 WHYYYYYYYYYYY. ℗ smoking frog media you are now my enemy.

So the Breakfast for One people never responded. As in, the piece of music we kinda based our whole first half of the opening to be based on. But its okay, because we will just have to settle, I guess. 

The move was now to look through royalty-free music to use, which is a bit unfortunate because it can (in some ways) take away from the realism of the character if it sounds too... boring. Royalty-free music tends to repeat itself annoyingly or sound very generic, and since our character is a teenager, this might go against the genre, if she's listening to some random song no one has heard of. 

Granted, Breakfast for One isn't the hit song of the summer either, so maybe we were already breaking coming-of-age/drama stereotypes anyway. That's the thing, our genre is coming-of-age but only because the plot of our film would hypothetically deal with themes of young adulthood that the character will face. However, only mental health is taken a brief look at in the opening, and it may not be too clear to the viewer what is actually happening in the beginning (which is intentional). I'll talk about this more in a later blogpost, but I guess I'm realizing that Faye and I are mostly breaking the genre rather than following it. 

Anyway, I suggested a couple websites for Faye and me to search through below, which I really just lifted from the Soundscape project assignment links our teacher gave us earlier in the year, as well as some wesbsites I knew from over the years (Bensound). Ultimately, we chose a song from Fesliyan Studios, a website I learned through working with my Silent Film team at STN.

The song is called Smoky Lounge by David Renda.

Anyway, Faye suggested that we edit our own version of the opening and then pick which one is better, but I'd prefer if we share the workload according to our preferences and strengths (for example, I'm the one with the vision for the credits and knowledge on how to do the graphics effects). Though, I guess I'll get started editing anyway in the meantime. "It'll be okay" is what I just have to keep telling myself.