Character Soundtracks
12 years ago
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-William Shakespeare
I've been bouncing this around as an interesting creative exercise, and I thought, why not share it with FA and see what they think.
The premise is simple. Take a character of yours and ponder, "If he/she had a personal soundtrack, what songs would be on it?" That list alone could say a lot about a character for someone who otherwise knows nothing about them.
Can't say I'm really sure of the precise soundtracks for my current characters would be, but I have thought about the soundtrack for a protagonist archetype I find myself playing around with a lot in my imagination. It's a work in progress, but it goes something like this (song title - band):
Welcome to My Life - Simple Plan
Gotta be Somebody - Nickelback
Monster - Skillet
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Me Against the World - Simple Plan
Move Along - The All-American Rejects
Bullet in My Hand - Red Light King
Someday - Nickelback
Hero - Chad Kroeger; Josey Scot
The premise is simple. Take a character of yours and ponder, "If he/she had a personal soundtrack, what songs would be on it?" That list alone could say a lot about a character for someone who otherwise knows nothing about them.
Can't say I'm really sure of the precise soundtracks for my current characters would be, but I have thought about the soundtrack for a protagonist archetype I find myself playing around with a lot in my imagination. It's a work in progress, but it goes something like this (song title - band):
Welcome to My Life - Simple Plan
Gotta be Somebody - Nickelback
Monster - Skillet
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Me Against the World - Simple Plan
Move Along - The All-American Rejects
Bullet in My Hand - Red Light King
Someday - Nickelback
Hero - Chad Kroeger; Josey Scot
Welcome to My Life - by - Simple Plan
Gotta be Somebody - by - Nickelback
Monster - by - Skillet
Animal I Have Become - by - Three Days Grace
Me Against the World - by - Simple Plan
Move Along - by - The All-American Rejects
Bullet in My Hand - by - Redlight King
Someday - by - Nickelback
Hero - by - Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott
Gotta say, this was a pleasant trip down memory lane - 'til the last one, of course. Hero keeps reminding me of the now deceased City of Heroes and Villains. ;~; And I must say, you are quite the rock baby! Mind if I suggest something? : Mindthings - Shared Loneliness
As for the suggest bit of music, it was a nice listen.
For instance we are developing a campaign setting that is a mixture of Dead Space and Warm Bodies. Its much more involved than that...but it is a good representation. Already we have for that campaign::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq9zhpBweDk - Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR65RWwzg8 - I'm With You
There is one that my husband picked out for the overall campaign theme but I cannot remember since it isn't "main stream" enough.
If you would like more examples let me know. Cause there is another campaign we are actually in the middle of that has several awesome songs for it as well.
I must say though, I'm interested in this campaign you mentioned. I am quite familiar with Dead Space, having beaten the core 3 in the franchise, but not Warm Bodies. Any chance you could elaborate? If it's too much to put in a comment, feel free to note me.
Anyways the campaign has a mixture of that general concept above with the concept of some artifact that mutates people into horrible monstrosities. The zombie that will be one of the characters (played by my husband) is sort of a "cocoon" of sorts. He has been infected by the artifact but has yet to change. His will is stronger than most and so seeing a woman in trouble (my character) spontaneously decides to save her. My character is a researcher who is trying to find a medical cure for what is going on, not knowing it is a alien artifact brought to earth. Eventually the two of them will figure out it is the artifact and find a way to destroy it.
So yeah a "good" zombie with a woman trying to save humanity dealing with horrible monsters (which we are developing from scratch), the fall of the human race, and general survival. Gonna be intense, scary, mind fucking, and a sprinkling of a love story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5jhxvQySRg - Reflection (yes from Mulan)