This post sums up our research into how to manipulate a film's soundtrack to the best effect, which helped us when we added the sountrack to our opening sequence:
Quite early on in the project, we decided that we were going to use Emily's original song, 'Train to Anywhere' in our opening sequence (because the acoustic guitar in it has a coming-of-age feel and the lyrics portray the same theme of travel and new starts as the opening sequence). We are still using this song, but we recently watched the video 'Film Riot: How to Manipulate People with Music - Score a Movie or Film!', one of the videos from 'Chris' Behind the Scenes How To' playlist. From this video, we learnt how picking the soundtrack for a film is essential to convey the themes that you wish to convey in your film. If the soundtrack is slightly off, then it changes the whole mood of the scene. To test this theory, we listened to the Reservoir Dogs theme song whilst watching our opening sequence, and although it still seemed very coming-of-age like and actually worked quite well with the sequence, it made the sequence a little too light-hearted, and the theme of loss wasn't very prominent.
Because our sequence includes dialogue and some sound effects (such as birds tweeting, general park ambiance, and a camera shutter sound) we have to lower the volume of the soundtrack in some places so that it doesn't distract from these diagetic sounds, both of which help to further tell the story.
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