Music.

Music is going to be very important for our opening sequence. It is going to set the mood of the film and it is also going to connote the British gangster style that we are trying to create. The soundtrack to a film is vital and if you get it wrong you can convey the wrong meaning; as we discoverd in our preliminary task. We have been discussing what type of music we think would be appropriate for our opening sequence, and we have come to the conclusion that we should use rock music from the 1960's to the early 1970's era. After having this discussion I went home and created a CD of some of the songs i believed to be appropriate for our genre. I looked at British and American rock bands from this period. The british bands we looked at were people such as 'The Who', 'The Clash', 'Rolling Stones','Led Zepplin', 'Sex Pistols' and 'Free'. I looked at American bans/artists such as Jimi Hendrix, 'Guns and Roses', and 'Steppenwolf'. As we are doing a British gangster genre British bands would obviously be the best choice for our soundtrack, but some of the American music I looked at would be good aswell, and would fit in with our opening.

The following are some of the songs I have put on the CD, and that we could be considering form our soundtrack.