We wanted our soundtrack to really fit in with the genre, for this reason we concentrated quite a lot on jazz and similar as we felt as a group that that genre of music really fit in well with film noir and would help to create the atmosphere we wanted in our film. We mainly decided to concentrate on soundtracks made for film rather than songs that may be in the charts or well know. We did this as we didn't want any singing in out film only instrumentals and we thought it would be hard to cut songs with singing and we may not get the desired effect, therefore soundtracks seemed perfect. Here are the main three songs we used.
Name: Underwater
Artist: Danny Elfman
From: Big Fish
Used: This was used at the start of our film when Barnaby and Adrianna Frisco were seen getting ready. We thought this was suitable as it wasn't too sinister as we didn't want anything to overpowering too soon. Although we did think this had subtle ominous undertones thats worked well in setting the scene and also a good starting point for the film.
Name: Main Theme
Artist: Andy Hale
From: LA Noire
Used: We used this as Barnaby is leaving the house/going to work. We thought this was quite slow and suggestive and gave the audience the sense that something bad would happen and it also reflected the feelings of the character, his doubts about going back to work and the guilt he feels after what happened with his partner.
Name: Investigation Theme
Artist: Andy Hale
From: LA Noir
Used: When Barnaby is called to the murder scene and first sees Bones in the tunnel. It is again used when Barnaby enters the church I think it is good that we used this song twice as in both instances there is something dangerous going on meaning the audience will associate the music with danger. I really like this track with all the odd notes, like drip like sound and the tinkling noises making it very sinister when they are coupled with the slow sudden piano notes.
Name: Every Dream Comes To An End
Artist: UNKLE
Used: This track was used right at the end in the church scene just as Adrianna shoots Barnaby. It is a very powerful piece of music, very slow and meaningful. I think it worked really well with the slow motion that was used throughout the scene I think it accentuates this and helps to show the reaction of Adrianna through music, it really echos what she must be thinking/feeling.
None of these tracks were royalty free so to be able to use them we used the Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976 which allows for 'Fair Use' of all songs.
Along with a soundtrack to enhance our film we also chose to use some sound effects to make our film seem more realistic. Some of these were quite subtle but we found the addition of them to be good ones. The sounds we got were things like; gunshots, people talking (for the office scene), traffic and urban sounds (for the murder scene). We found some websites where we could obtain these sounds for free.
Along with these sounds we also recorded some original sounds, like the voice over at the very beginning between Barnaby Frisco (Luke Jones) and Bones Goodwin (Matt Williams) then the voice over by Barnaby explaining the back story. This was recorded on a Canon 500D.
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