We spent a lot of time trying to decide on the perfect soundtrack on our thriller, and despite our hesitation at first when we believed it would be difficult to find a track that was uncopyrighted; we soon seemed to be overwhelmed with choice: did we want a stereotypical soundtrack or an ironic one? Did we want an instrumental or a piece with lyrics?
In the end, we decided to use "Across" - an instrumental, classical piece from a website that hosts many uncopyrighted songs (mobygratis). We got in touch with the original artist of the piece and asked for their permission to use the song - they agreed on the condition we let them watch the finished video, which of course we agreed to.
We chose this piece because we felt it would be an ironic statement to the action in the video (in a similar way to God Bless America is used in an ironic way in Once Upon a Time in America.) This includes the way in which throughout the murder, peaceful music continues to play in the background - almost making it seem meaningless.
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