Production- Music

 Before I even fully fleshed out my idea I had music in mind. I quite like the sound of Jack Stauber's music. Buttercup is arguably his famous one, albeit a more conventional sounding one. But that is how I found his music. I haven't listened to all of his songs yet, but his sound stood out to me. In an interview, he said something along the lines of "If something sounds good or funny I'll use it in a song", and it shows. It's always a fun time to listen to his songs, and I can appreciate that.  The spontaneity of the vocals, the delivery of them, and even the sound to some degree reminds me of Queen a bit.  His lyrics, while random and at some points even unintelligible, have been chosen meticulously, leaving meanings to his songs open to analysis and interpretation. I was particularly inspired by Oh Klahoma. So far it's one of my favorites of his. The beat is steady, not super overwhelming. In my head the story was always about a ghost, with lines like "I cant be the only one who sees you" and "don't put me to rest". At least on a surface level it had ghost imagery. Or at least the idea of being unseen. But I won't go into detail on my personal opinion of the songs story. 

It seemed like it playing faintly in the background of this film, at least at the beginning, would give a relaxed mood, while not being too bouncy or silly. However, upon looking up Jacks socials, I found he doesn't have a business email. I didn't want to go out of my way to get a social media app because I don't want to feel obligated to talk to people from my middle school. That aside, I searched a bit more. I found I could get access to something like a business email on a website I found, but it looked to be exclusively for businesses or influencers. Normally I wouldn't have cared and would have just made an account, but you had to pay copious amounts of money. That made sense in hindsight. I've started on my search to find a song with a similar feeling, or background beat at the very least. Might do something vaguely jazzy. I leave for now with this doodle I found of Jack 



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