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WHAT I ENDED UP APPLYING:

• I created a fictional identity of the musician behind the soundtrack of my film, James Riley,  who was an Indie romantic artist, which fitted an outside teenager looking for love, similar to how Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys recorded and sung the soundtrack behind Warp's Submarine

It is not always the case, but most films will have a number of tracks.

Even if their isn't an official soundtrack made for the film, you will find playlists on the two main music streaming sites Spotify and YouTube, in the case of Baby Driver there was already a playlist on Spotify created.

For my film opening I have chosen the tracks I Want Candy and I Keep Forgetting.

While these are not mainstream songs and are also covers, they still carry with them some pop identiy.

When I played the I Want Candy track to a girl above in my year, she reacted by saying: "Of course, who doesn't know that song"

However big hit films will feature songs from the top charts, which is included in the trailer

https://www.bustle.com/articles/169688-the-song-in-bridget-joness-baby-trailer-is-absolutely-perfect-for-the-movie

It can be that the personality/image of the singer will correlate with the genre  themes of the film, like for Suicide Squad which deals with a bunch of misfits, you have artists who have all been hedonistic and/or damaged to some extent

 for Bridget Jones's Baby you have romantic Ed Sheeran. 

Last 5 Films I Watched

WHAT I ENDED UP APPLYING:

• The knowledge/interest in Shakespeare ended up being useful for the signifiers of high art in a pop culture film, as well as the origins of the romantic comedy with Twelfth Night mentioned below, but also As You Like It, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing

POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE

• Representation of LGBT+ like in The Imitation Game
• Some of these films narratives I aspire to create one day, but most of them are too complicated for a two-minute film opening

I had not watched any of the trailers before watching the film.

The Imitation Game

I had been wanting to watch this film for a while, primarily because of the lead actor, Benedict Cumberbatch. This demonstrates how the star system dominates the film industry. While I don't just watch films and other media in general, recognisable faces always give me a good feeling about the film, especially when I first heard of it two years, it excited me that Benedict Cumberbatch was in a leading role after seeing him in several TV roles leading up to internationally successful Sherlock and his role as a villain in Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Twelfth Night 

I have had an interest in Shakespeare for a while, and have been watching more and more screen adaptations.

The Tempest

The Reader

Watched it because I read the book, intellectual property.

The Age Of Stupid

A very relevant issue for our planet today, and the DVD had been lying around for a while.