Music Choices

 A huge struggle during my project was music.

A big part of the story itself is music, and how it can help someone with their problems... the problem is I can't find music. I've been searching up down, sideways, and upside down for music that is non-copywritten. I found lots of non-copyright music but it all sucked, most were background music, with no lyrics, or if it did have lyrics the artist wasn't someone I could easily reference in the film. So after searching for a while and only coming up with songs like this I took a break to work on the shot list.

After I finished everything and even shooting I desperately needed an artist to use for the opening. Then I remembered my friend Ava has a friend that makes music. Which I thought It would be perfect because she even talks about mental health in her music. Her name is Mckensy and her music name is Tired in Pink. She is not a huge artist but she makes great music, she has 16 monthly listeners and has 16 songs on Spotify. After I listened to a couple songs and heard how good it would go in my film opening and decided to DM asking her for permission, obviously it wasn't a super professional text but here it is.

As you can see she said YESSSS. So as soon as she texted me back I  listened to all her songs and I picked 4 that I really liked. Those were Best friend, Skyler's pov, Nathalie, and FAKE.

The reason I chose those specific songs is because they had similar vibes, chill, and soothing music that could help Olivia thought her hard times. I specifically chose Best friends as the last song she would listen to as she is having her panic attack to foreshadow that the girl she meets will become her best friend.