Magic Lantern
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Andrew Moul-Source
For my source, I’m choosing the song ‘My Favorite Things”
from the movie “The Sound of Music”. In my story, I try to show how playing the
piano calms me down and clears my head by allowing the listener to hear my
thoughts as I play. I chose this particular song because it is from one of my
favorite movies and playing the piano is one of my favorite things. I think
that I would like to incorporate it somehow into my story. Perhaps by recording
myself playing the song, or humming it as I read. Although I think that by
including an actual song and not just the components of a piece of music,
people will have something concrete to relate to. If I decide to play the song
in the recording, I’m not sure how I am going to intertwine my thoughts with
the music although I am experimenting with a few different ideas. At first I thought
I would mute the song entirely when I want to interject my thoughts but now I
think just lowering the volume might be more effective. I’m not sure. I am sure
though that ‘My Favorite Things” is definitely the right song for me.
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I think that's a great idea to get inspiration from and use "My Favorite Things." I liked your initial story of your thoughts as you play the piano, and I think there's a connection between that and this song... the idea that music can be used to calm someone down. It could be as easy as incorporating some of your emotions into your stream of thoughts, along the way saying "I'm feeling more relaxed now" or something. The song and the commentary of your thoughts would create a double meaning which could be cool.
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