Soundtrack

For our soundtrack we have managed to persuade a good friend of ours to compose for us. This will make it look much better as we won't have to adjust the music to fit the picture, or spend hours surfing the Internet to find a suitable piece of royalty free music. Instead the music will be tailored perfectly to the images, with relevant breaks, dynamic and tempo changes.
Our composer is trained in Classical music composition, which should add and interesting element to our film, as it would seem much more high brow, as well as adding depth. The music will have an almost melancholic feel to it, as if the audience is looking into an unchangeable past. However at the same time the music will be intense and fast paced, building towards small climaxes and all the while working towards the big climax. The music will control the tension of the scene, and will reveal to the audience when something bad is about to happen. Alternatively we could use the music to completely surprise the audience, as if we were to have happy music for most of it and then suddenly someone gets shot then we would catch our audience off guard and they will be on the edge of their seat. This is not, however the feel we're going for. We want it to be serious and intense from the outset, so the audience know that something is going down, and they'll know ahead of time things that even the characters wouldn't know. The fact is, the music will control a lot of the factors in the scene.
That said, I don't want the music to be too overpowering. By composing music separately we run the risk of the music being more obvious then the action and the dialogue, and the audience concentrating on that more. The music needs to be able to support the action, but not become the main source of attraction. It would be really bad if it just became a music video, or if it was mistaken for a trailer. Another problem is that we need to be able to record the piece of music. My co-worker and I have decided against recording off an electric keyboard using synthesised sounds, as this wild sound very fake and every cheap. Instead we're going to make sure that the score is composed for instruments which we are able to play. These include:
-Piano
-Cello
-Violin
-Bassoon
-Drums
-Guitar (electric & acoustic)
-Vocals
This gives us a very wide range of instruments to compose with, however seeming as some of us play multiple instruments we'd have to layer them. We have enough recording equipment to record it to a professional standard, so the final piece should come out sounding pretty decent. I have full faith in our composer to compose an incredible score that would rival even the greatest professional film composers such as Hans Zimmer and John Williams and the overall project will be greatly improved by his contribution.