As the start of the trailer is supposed to seem like a teen angst film, we used an upbeat song - called 'If she's an angel' - by Charlotte Campbell, who is a singer that Lucy knows and who allowed us to use her song. We slowed down the beginning of the song to 80% of its original tempo to give a slightly eerie vibe to the clips being shown. So that the last word wasn't lost in the fade to the next song, we added reverb to it to put emphasis on it. The lyrics of the section of song we used are, "If she's an angel, what am I? If she's an angel, what am I supposed to be?", which connote innocence and a sense of the girl mentioned being 'perfect'- reflecting Michael's views of Holly. The lyrics also emphasise the use of Strauss' theory of polar opposites being in our film.
The second song used in the trailer is called 'Pretty Parties' and was found on FreeplayMusic. We sped the song up to fit the fast pace and we also reorganised the order of the shots so that the cuts were in time to the beat. I decided to edit the start of the song to the end of the trailer so that it fades into a slower pace when the title appears. There was also a version of it that was slowed down and had less drums so I edited that between the two songs as a transition to make them flow better - as we realised in our feedback that the songs didn't go together well.
As mentioned in an earlier blog post, we used silence at the beginning and end of the trailer to put emphasis on voiceover - with last part being diegetic.
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