All right, well I’ve been working on the music for the film. I’ve actually been modeling a lot of stuff for this film after The Social Network, because I think the two are trying to make some of the same points and they will therefore be stylistically similar. A couple weeks ago I downloaded the soundtrack for The Social Network and gave it a listen. One of the songs, a “remix” I guess of “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gave me some inspiration and I took that to my keyboard. The film takes place in the minutes leading up to midnight, and so I started playing “Moonlight Sonata” in this weird synth. I messed around with it for a couple hours and realized this would be the song to play over the title sequence.
Next I decided to duplicate my success by “remixing” The Turkish March. It came out dance-like so I decided to lengthen it and play the song during the girl’s sleepover scene in the film. Over the next couple days, I continued to mess around with various electronic sounds and that has resulted in about twenty minutes of music, that I’ve linked to below. Please check it out and comment on this post, I’d love to hear what you think!
http://soundcloud.com/kenneth-moffitt/sets/the-girls-and-boys-in-school/
I really like the loud pounding one. Question, I guess I’m having a hard time visualizing how the Girl Talk remix will fit with that scene. I can’t quite picture it. What was your thinking? Also, I think this should be your inspiration, I’m kinda obsessed with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E87JSduSnVw
haha That’s definitely one of my favorites from the Social Network. For the Girl Talk scene the song will merely be playing in the background, coming from a diagetic source like an alarm clock in the room. The idea is that while the girls are talking they are listening to music on low volume.
But I guess I don’t think girls would be listening to something like that?? Or am I wrong… I like it, I just don’t get how it fits the scene…
You might be right, if Sarah just wanted to put on some music it’s probably more likely she would choose something more mainstream… of course, I can’t use copyrighted music so I tried to make something that sounded mainstream but was a little artsy too… and anyways I see Sarah a little more as the hipster kind of girl, the girl who knows a lot of obscure music…