ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

We asked a close friend who produces music semi-professionally to do a cover of the popular lullaby “Hush My Baby” but when he produced this audio text we found that the tone and pace of the sound did not comply with the generic codes and conventions associated with our media text. So in the end we ultimately decided to drop the idea all together and opted to go a for more commercial but less mainstream soundtrack in order to attract our target market (demographic).

A TUNE TO MURMER THROUGH THE AGES...

For our media text I wished to create an individual soundtrack that best represented our texts genre and narrative pace and path.

To achieve this we enlisted the help of a close friend who produces music we asked him to perform and record an instrumental cover version of the popular lullaby. We did so to raise our production values allowing for a greater sense of professionalism. In doing so we hoped to create some of the archetypal codes and conventions associated with our chosen genre of our media text. Following in the footsteps of some of the most iconic themes from timeless classics such as

The Exorcist (1973)

Exorcist theme

Jurassic Park (1993)

Jurassic Park theme

Jaws (1975)
Jaws theme

With all these themes that have come before are now synonymous with their particular associated media texts. With these particular examples that had inspired me to condone the creation of a similar yet unique theme tune to be associated with out media text. Due to the source of my inspiration I thought it would be best to acknowledge them and reference them in some way or form this would be done using the tool of intersexuality.

A TIME FOR EASTER EGGS

Our media text's narrative revolves around a unnamed man trying to save a unnamed woman from dying however later in the narrative it is revealed that the woman is actually a patient in a mental asylum and the man and his whole world is a concoction stemming from her mind. Due to this plot twist I thought it would be beneficial to introduce Easter eggs that hint towards the plot twist throughout the trailer.

I wanted something short and right to the point. I ultimately opted to go with the phrase 'IT'S NOT REAL'. Due to our lack of a budget we had to use Photoshop to create a fake newspaper front page with the phrase on it. I also spray painted the phrase on a collection of posters and placed it on a wall as the unnamed man ran past. With this the easter egg has two roles; one, to inform the protagonist of the narrative's destination and secondly, it breaks the fourthwall and talks directly to the audience by doing this I intended to reinvent the world famous Greek tragedies that Shakespeare also produced were the audience knows the inevitable demise of the character but is only there to look on and see the journey the narrative takes to get there.

A NAME IS BORN

in this post i will tell you what title we have picked

INSOMNIUM

Insomnium is the Latin equivalent of nightmares. The reason why we picked it was mainly due to the abstractness of the title and what thoughts and feelings it inhibits, i found that once i conducted a mini survey i found that once people heard this title it intrigued them and left them asking more

another reason for the reason i picked this was that it reflects our target audience that we are tying to capture with the inclusion of more older themes that were also present in inception (2010) and partly to do with the success of it.

TO NAME OR NOT TO NAME...

in this post i will state some working titles that are currently attached to our project

INSOMNIUM
this title means nightmares in latin

SOMNIA
this title means dreams in latin

HYPNOS
this title is given to the greek god of dreams and nightmares

all these have a constant theme of dreams, sleep and nightmares which is a crucial narrative tool within our text

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