Deciding on Music

James Blake is an English electronic music producer and singer-songwriter from London. We used one of his songs in our AS piece last year entitled limit to your love and we felt that it worked really well and fitted the mood and genre of our piece which was a psychological thriller. We chose to use a James Blake song again this year because while we are both familiar with his music and he is very successful, we know that his songs aren't particularly well known and are quite different.

When deciding on the song we narrowed it down between:

• I Never Learnt To Share

• Life Round Here

One particular aspect of these songs that we thought would really fit the mood of our trailer was that both songs aren't entirely made up of lyrics but also feature a lot of music and echoes. The repetition of lyrics in both songs fit the concept in our trailer as it also involves repetition of the tasks and places that Noah is visiting e.g. he travels a lot via trains and tubes as well as walking around alone. 

We chose to use the first song 'I Never Learnt to Share' because it conveyed a darker mood that we wanted to capture through the lower and quite slow beat. 

When reading the lyrics to the song we could see reflections and similarities to our themes of isolation and silence which are very relevant to our trailer. Although these lyrics are about people not talking to one person and ours differs in the way of the singular person won't talk to anyone we still feel that the key ideas are shown. For example, the lyrics "But I don't blame them" can express how our character Noah blames himself for not telling anyone about what he witnessed, resulting in his silence, and the repetition of the word speak throughout the song emphasises to the audience his inability to speak.