Updates and absence

  

 So, I’ve been absent from my blog for quite some time because life has been crazy. I had a three-day school trip for a state French competition, of which I won overall in my level and category (WOOHOO!!), and then during my week of spring break I had a trip to New York. So, here are my updates.  

    First of all, I made some changes to Melody. She's a musician now! I came up with this idea out of desperation, if I'm honest. I was having a lot of trouble finding a song to be "Melody and Kai's" song. I initially planned to have the sing "Until I Found You" by Stephen Sanchez, because the tone and lyrics perfectly embody exactly what I want the audience to feel, and fits the context of the film perfectly.

I went about this by messaging the artist. However, I never received a response.

I later found out that Stephen Sanchez was under a contract with Atlanta Records, and decided it wasn't even worth trying to get the rights to use his song from the company, because I was very short on time and did not have time to wait for a response. As a result, I used a website called Epidemic Sound to look for a copyright free song. But even from there...I didn't find anything I liked. So I thought "what if I just used an instrumental song, and Melody was the musician?" And I loved that idea. I got permission from my friend Sarah to borrow her acoustic guitar, and I even used my own keyboard and decided to include shots of Melody playing the instruments to push the idea that she was a musician.