Composing Original Music

I struggled for a while about what music to use in the film. I thought about sampling the music from the opening credits of Friday Night Lights, but I was not sure how to get the rights to it and I thought that it might be too heavy-handed and distracting to viewers that are fans of the show. I also listened to a bunch of instrumental clips online, but nothing really worked. Then my dad asked me why I did not compose something original. I have been taking piano and guitar lessons for several years and more recently have been studying composition, but the idea of composing my own music for the film had not occurred to me. I played a few of my original compositions on piano while watching the opening sequence on my phone. One of them had the right tone, and with a few changes in timing and transition could fit well with the quickly changing shots in the opening. For the closing credits, I composed another piece that fit the change in mood I was looking for. I recorded both pieces on my Yamaha keyboard with my iPhone.