My Short Film Music

When choosing the main music track for my short film I decided on using a song that linked to New York or had lyrics relating to New York.

To find an appropriate track I simply searched New York on YouTube and found lots of musical tracks by several artists and chose my favourite.

These are the two that were the best options:

New York- Snow Patrol

Welcome To New York- Taylor Swift

My final choice was New York by Snow Patrol. Below are the reasons:

• Better links to New York.
• Has aspects of my storyline written within the music 'If you were here beside me, instead of in New York'.
• The music links well as you think the song is from Demis characters point of view, 'If you were here beside me' then she wouldn't be with somebody else. Until we find out its written from the Gemma's point of view.

I then had to find a cover of the song to avoid copy write issues and having to pay royalties (payment to use the song, normally a very large figure) to have permission to use the song. 

This is the best cover I found and the one I will use in my short film:

To use this song I sent an email to the cover artists to ask for permission to use their song. Normally they will be very happy to give permission as its a very good way of free advertisement of themselves and spreads there music easier to more audiences, especially when used in film like I am doing. 

Here is my email:

This was their reply:

After receiving permission I went ahead to take a copy of the music, manipulate it to where I planned for it to start and end.
 

You can hear the music in my final cut.