Music

We considered several songs for our film - including Martina McBride's Concrete Angel, Kelly Clarkson's Low, and Relient K's Be My Escape. The lyrics for the last song suited the film best, but the music was completely wrong, so we thought about getting the musical score, having Lucy play it on piano, and have a friend of ours sing it, because this would give us much better control over the speed of the whole thing where it was really far too upbeat for a melodramatic, saddening film; we could edit the lyrics where necessary - the first verse on its own would have been better suited to what we needed; and our friend's voice suited the whole thing much better than the vocals of Relient K, whose members are all male and enthusiastic.

We also considered using a more oxymoronic song - for example, Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.

Eventually, we made the descision to have Lucy and her brother compose and play a piece for us. We are using this and an extract from Leona Lewis' Homeless in the final piece.