With the help of a very useful website from Sam Creamer, I was able to find a number of songs on the website: http://www.audionetwork.com
This website was especially helpful as the websites I usually look at (Incompetch) aren't film soundtracks and they can become quite typical and boring. However this site is especially designed for TV, Film, Video and Advertising.
I began searching for songs under a variety of different moods and emotions for different parts of my film. The hardest song to look for is for old Nancy's scene at the end as it's extremely emotional and I don't want to ruin it in anyway. It took much longer than I thought when looking for songs and I should of allowed myself more time to really search thoroughly through the website - however I do feel I have found a beautiful song that really brings out the emotions that Nancy is feeling and hopefully the audience will relate. I narrowed down my search to a few songs and with the help of advice from a few people - finally chose the song ''Modest Reflection''. The song is a piano based song with a slow tempo, the key changes slightly throughout the piece and I really think it fits with my piece.
Next I wanted to find a song that could fit into my park/apple scene and which I could edit so it would become distorted with another song I want to find. This is so the mood turns weird and weird through parts of my film when contrasts begin to happen and Nancy starts seeing flashes of Jack in her imagination. I want the first song to be quite peaceful and uplifting - then the song becomes distorted and we hear a very low key change and the song turns into a dangerous and scary mood. After a very long search I finally came across ''Still Light'' for the uplifting song. I really like the sound of it as it's very happy, energetic and fit when I played it with the scene I wanted.
For the song that will lay under this and distort into, I found ''Genesis One'', I feel this song is perfect as it's not too dark and depressing yet definitely drops the mood of the film and makes it feel isolated and worried.
These are a few of the songs I found whilst searching for a variety of different songs.
I looked on the website and found that for students it's only £0.83 to buy a track, compared to TV commercial advertising which is £495 per track! It does have less advertising and advantages for students however non that affect what I am using the track for :)
I decided to go ahead and buy the tracks as it's worth it and fits with my film.
The next part of the sound design was to find general background noise and a 1920's royalty free song that I could use for the 'radio' in the 2nd scene.
I decided to look on incompetech.com and http://www.freesfx.co.uk to find general noises such as walking in heels, birds/ambience, grandfather clock etc. At the start I didn't have much luck... it was hard to find ambience that wasn't too over the top and distracting - especially the bird noises. However I did end up finding some really nice sound effects that fit with my film, especially the heel shoe noises and the grandfather clock.
I ended up finding a really catchy 1920's song on Youtube which was royalty free named, ''You Took Advantage of Me'' by Bix Beiderbecke. I really like the song as it fits perfectly with the dance scene and doesn't ruin my film.
In conclusion, I'm really happy so far with the music choices and hope that they keep the mood of the film up and don't distract the audience. If I could do anything better it would be making sure my time management skills are more up to scratch as I under estimated the time it would take to create a sound design!
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