I Fight Dragons

Music for a movie is at times tricky. Composers such as John Williams, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, or Ennio Morricone have to create symphony that will create the character's feelings in an audio way. Filmmakers often use songs to introduce the tone or characters of the movie. The trick is to have a song that is incomplete. Akira Kurosawa coined two terms. The first one is Incomplete Music. This type of music isn't what you hear in the radio or any random time. It isn't indepedent. This type of music is called incomplete since it needs a visual medium to accompany it. This is why film music has that certain type of "playing in the background" type of feel. The second type is counterpoint or contrapuntal music. This music uses a happy song paired with a sad visual. Examples could include Stuck in the Middle of You in Resevoir Dogs. Kurosawa described that if we pair a happy song with a sad visual then the impact will be greater.

Anyways, for our film there will be a song playing the radio as a natural sound. When the drum hits the title sequence will begin. We chose the song Pretend by I Fight Dragons. This song is incomplete as if a visual could drive the impact for the audience. It's style also utlizes the character's details. A techno, video game style song. When the scene moves to one depicting bullying, the song will play in the background, driving the scene to an emotional impact. The only problem is, how we are going to use a song from an actual band.

So you know those times when your friend swears he met or spoke to a famous person. Our Frank Pol did. He emailed the lead singer to I Fight Dragons, asking persmission to use their song. Here is their reply:

This is the link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBU41JPXaUI