Music- Local Artists

"Music helps set the tone and mood of the trailer. Usually the music used in the trailer is not from the film itself (the film score may not have been composed yet). "

- Wikipedia article on Trailers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_(film)

We have started to seriously consider the music we need to use in our teaser trailer, as we want it to convey something both about our characters and the genre of our film, and our target audience. Thus, we wanted the music to feel 'young' and modern- we thought a rap/ hip hop track would probably get this across the best.

We have found a local artist who produces the kind of music we would like to use, D-Mindz. His song Monster is sung from the perspective of a boy who is destroyed by his love for a girl, with lyrics connoting violence and anger,tying in with the drug dealers.



These are the lyrics of the song:

Monster
How should I feel
Creatures lie here
Looking through the window x2

I'm surrounded by the darkness
And the harder that I try to break free the more it tightens on this harness
I try ripping it, it's so sickening
All these creatures in the carpet I'm living in

You tried screaming for help
But I had my hands wrapped round your mouth, I felt frightened of myself
I had your heart in my palm, I can do what I want
So I tear it apart, what I felt necessary

I turned into something I didn't wanna but you made me so cold
And now I'm sitting here, the record's playing, and no one's home and
Hey, I didn't mean to break your heart
We all make mistakes, I'm the one you'll regret forever, babe

Monster
How should I feel
Creatures lie here
Looking through the window x2

You're my poison, you're the toxic, running through my veins,
You're the puppet master with the strings through my brain,
But then I broke free from your hold
You've never seen a hot boy turn this cold

You wrote me a love note to make me feel better
At the bottom of the page, I found blood on the letter,
At the top of the page was a smiley face sulking,
Man, I never knew a girl so insulting

It's all jokes and laughs until you get your hopes smashed by broken glass
And you're sitting on a cloud still floating past
Til the bullets smoke past and don't you crash,
You could try reversing memories
If you went back a century we'd still be enemies
I hate you, but should I keep that a secret or introduce you to this side of the truth?

Monster
How should I feel
Creatures lie here
Looking through the window x2

Take a little bit of heartbreak, a little bit of vodka,
I'm still in love with a bitch called karma,
I got my nails so deep in her flesh,
If I ran, I could rip the heart straight from her chest,

And it's lust with neglect,
I just wanna f*ck you, girl, I don't need your respect
And my attitude is very ugly
And trust me, you wouldn't dare to love me

It must be the drink, it must be the scars,
It must be the girls I find in bars
But I never seem to find the right one,
Somebody dial 911
I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you
Forever, babe

There is a lot of violent imagery in the song ('But I had my hands wrapped round your mouth, I felt frightened of myself', 'I got my nails so deep in her flesh, If I ran, I could rip the heart straight from her chest') which its in well with the theme of our film.