Research: music & sound

The types of music used in teen film openings

Mean girls

Mean girls is a teen film and has the sub genre of comedy. It also has the sub genre of romance. The opening title sequence for mean girls is:

The song for the opening sequence is called Pass That Dutch by Missy Elliot. Missy Elliot is a fairly well known artist and rapper. It is a hip hop/R'n'B song and is very upbeat and catchy to reflect the tone of the movie. In our opening sequence, however, we would not be able to use this because of copyright reasons. We may use a song similar to this in our opening sequence as one of our sub genre's is comedy.

Final destination

Final destination is a teen horror film. The opening title sequence follows:

The opening song for Final destination is much different to that of Mean Girls. For one, it is much more slow and tense, and doesn't exactly have a specific category of music to go under. It does not have any words on it and is a rather suspenseful piece. This is because the sub genre of Final Destination is horror/thriller, and the opening sequence song reflects the mood of the movie. The artist for the song is unknown, unlike the one for Mean Girls, which has Missy Elliot on it. It would be much easier to use a song like this in our opening sequence as there will not be copyright issues however we would not use something like this in our opening sequence because it doesn't create the effect that we're going for.

Juno

Juno is a teen film that has sub genres of comedy, romance and drama. There trailer:

The opening sequence for Juno is a song by Barry Louis Polisar called All I want is you. The song is quite mellow and has a country-ish feel to it. Using this song may be a problem because of copyright reasons however the song is quite opposite to the tone of the movie as the music is quite soft however the movie tackles hard topics such as teenage pregnancies. We would not want a song like this as our opening sequence song.