Background Music for Opening Sequence

We searched for songs that would blend well with the purpose and genre of Split as it is a drama/football movie so we were thinking of choosing a particular song that would represent the main character, being Bradley "Keano" Kean, as a person who wants to be the best in the world at what he loves to do (which is football) yet he also wants to finish his education by passing all of his exams with results that would take him on a sailing boat to University but the gang life he wants to leave is slowly pulling him back in so in other words, a motivational song would best suit the opening sequence as it would motivate Keano to leave his 'crime life', aspire his 'football' lifestyle and revise for his exams so that he can exceed his expectations.

The first song that sounded like it would have fit with our description of the BGM for our opening sequence was 'Kanye West - Runaway' but the instrumental without the hook. However, when we actually used it as the background music for the opening sequence, it didn't really work well with it as the instrumental had a slow but brutal beat to it whereas there is the football scene in the opening sequence that shows a change of pace as Nile O-Meally Newell is swiftly dribbling his way around football cones so we realized that we needed a faster instrumental.



Despite the mixed martial arts picture used in the video, I had also thought about using this motivational song, named "Ready for War", which is an instrumental remix that was also used for the De La Hoya/Mayweather showdown. My thoughts about this song are that it doesn't only work well with boxing or fighting sports but in general as it would work well with the fact that Keano is ready for gang warfare as he attempts to find his own identity in the movie, he is ready for a war in football since there is fierce competition and if he is able to get into Arsenal, it would benefit him heavily but introduce him into a lifestyle he would have never encountered before and he would also be ready for competition in school as it would be a war between several students to determine who the most academic student would be and Keano would not want to be a close second or even a second at all.

It would also work well because it would add more intensity to the opening sequence since the opening sequence consists of "split" clips which are video clips of him taking on different types of activities/hobbies and the music would work well with the film and opening sequence because it would give the audience a sense of how difficult it is going to be for Keano's final decision as to which lifestyle he would generally want to consider pursuing.