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Songs/music ideas needed
Ok. So I'm making a short movie for my movie class - the theme is 'survival' and I chose to talk about my Summer of 2006, when I was in Lebanon during the war thing and how I managed to survive by eating only bread for a week, not sleeping, etc.
I started off my movie by quotes. It goes like "And did you go to your bed, with a sweet lullaby, and the sound of the guns in the night?" and then you get these scenes of me, my sisters and mom (who were with me in Leb.) saying "Yes" in Armenian (there'll be English subtitles - I'm Armenian). The scenes for the movie are like ... they will look disturbing and stuff, Ive only included parts of the body and face like hands, eyes, mouth, etc. ANYway, after the first quote and "Yes", comes another quote saying "And did you dance in the fields, or did you run for your life from the hell that came down from the skies?" then again, me mom and sisters say "I was there". Then the quote "On a Lebanese night". Then my movie starts.
Now the quotes are taken from a song by Chris De Burgh called "Lebanese Night". I will not include the song itself in the movie not till the end credits part, just the quote section sung. The movie has to be 5-8 mins long. I want to include music/songs in the movie here and there so it won't be boring to listen to me talking about how I did this and that. So I was thinking about these ideas:
a- Smells Like Teen Spirit (acoustic version) by Tori Amos. Now I have no idea what this songs is originally about but I get a sense of 'war' in it..So I was thinking about using this.
b- My own recording of "Mad World" by Gary Jules on the piano, except I'd make it slower and weirder. No lyrics.
c- "Airport Song" by Guster. To describe what I felt when I left Lebanon and arrived back home all happy and stuff.
I'm not really satisfied with the options I have above...I want music that will go well with my theme. Genre doesn't matter (I've even thought about Zeromancer's "Dr. Online!"), I just want a song or a piece of music that will suit the theme 'survival'.
Thanks in advance. Sorry for making it long.
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Hi.
This sounds like it's going to be an awesome video you're putting together - good luck with it. Would be awesome to be able to see it when it's finished if that'll be possible at all. :]
Unfortunently all my main music (thousands upon thousands of tracks) are all on my main PC which I am unable to access at the moment (long story but I need a replacement graphics card) so I had to remember tracks off of the top of my head. I came up with the following short list that you may want to check out. I'm not sure if you're looking for a slow type of song or not so I added all kinds so you can decide for yourself.<br><br>
Greenday - Wake Me Up When September Ends.<br>
John Farnham - You're The Voice.<br>
REM - Everybody Hurts.<br>
Phil Collins & Peter Gabriel - Take Me Home (or the Phil Collins solo original, which might be better).<br>
Papa Roach - Scars (Acoustic).<br><br>
Personally I'd recommend REM's Everybody Hurts from that list, it's an awesome track (if you're adding a voice over then you could always fade out the song to a minimum while you speak over it and then fade it back in slowly. ;]
Hope the list was helpful though and good luck with it. If you need any tracks on that list which you can't get hold of let me know in my inbox and I'll sort out a wayto get them to you.
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