Soundtrack Designer

Choose one specific scene in your book where music is a MUST. Towards the beginning of the book, Big Mom has a flashback. She witnesses the murder of hundreds of horses by white soldiers. She buries the horses but makes a flute out of the most beautiful. She plays a different mourning song everyday for forty days. pgs. 9-10

What song would you choose to have play during this section of the story? Why would it be an appropriate song? I would choose “Ly-O-Lay Ale Loya”, a Native American song from the Wolves Imax movie soundtrack. It would be appropriate because: 1. It’s a Native song and 2. It’s a haunting and moving piece of music.

Create a short soundtrack to your movie. This is essentially a 4-5 song playlist that would be excellent background music to your film. Next to each track, write a one sentence explanation. 

1. Reservation Blues

2. Treaties

3. My God Has Dark Skin

4. Falling Down and Falling Apart

5. Big Mom

Instead of writing a statement for each song, I’m making one statement overall: These songs are all in the book and have actually been recorded onto a CD. I chose the top 5 best songs.

~ by novodc5 on May 31, 2008.