Music for 'Reflecting Absence'

After spending a long time on YouTube researching various tracks for my trailer I have come to a conclusion. I felt that rather than having a sombre song through out the trailer I would have two songs; one being a sombre reflective song which is used to reflect the emotions of the character and the intensity of the plot. The second song will be a positive song this is to reflect Amelia moving on with her life and then realising that Jack has come back to say goodbye.


I feel that by using two songs it will give the trailer a balance between sadness and happy which is what the film is about; a person dealing with their grief and the saddness of losing somebody they love and then what they do with that grief and the positive outcomes of what happened.

The first song; 'Delicate' by Damien Rice.

For me it was the beat of the song that attracted me and the repetiveness of the lyrics which conotates Amelia constantly replaying the moment Jack died in her head and that feeling of constantly reliving what happened on 9/11. To complement this sombre track I have selected a song that has repetitive lyrics but with a happy beat that conotates to looking forward to the future and what is going to come next, which is what is happening in Amelia's life.

The second song; 'Good Life' by OneRepublic