Production Blog: Picking Our Music

Before we began filming, my partner and I had to decide what music we were gonna pick. Based off our genre and pitch, we wanted something suspenseful. We wanted to avoid the issues regarding asking an artist to use their music. Instead of asking for permission to use a song, we decided to use royalty free music. There are hundreds of royalty free music websites on the internet. Through surfing these websites we can find a song that'll be perfect for our final task. One website that we came across was "epidemicsound.com". This website offered plenty of songs that my partner and I liked. The songs created the feeling that you'd find in a horror film. That feeling where you do not know what happens next. That feeling where you are worried for a character. That feeling where you know a scare is coming. This was the exact feeling that we wanted our song to give the audience. My partner and I ended up agreeing on a song that we both liked. The song was eerie, and suspenseful. My partner and I found this part of production to be easy. There was no trouble with finding a song. There is a vast amount of songs to choose from. The songs are all free and easily accessible.




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