How we have created music and used it effectively in our film.

In our film Oh My Guru we have added various music to create a mis-en-scene to add more to the scene. When we first started editing our movie we found that it was missing something, as there were no background noises it was just silent. So we decided to do a little research into free music websites to try and find music that would fit our movie. We didn’t manage to find any that really went with the theme of our movie so I got my friend who knows how to play the guitar to record one for us. We asked her to look at what editing of the movie we had done and just play something that came to mind when she watched this. She did this very effectively.  
Also in our research we looked up some movies to see what type of music they had at the start of the movie. Our inspiration film 'Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging' had chirpy and happy music. We looked up a few others and 'The Holiday' had the type of music we were looking for. We recorded our friend playing the guitar on the ediroll. However when we were editing we found it was a bit quiet so we had to turn the volume up on Pinnacle studios. We also had voiceovers so the audience would get a feel of our character. Again we got this idea from our inspired films and we found in some romantic comedies there are quite a few voiceovers included.