Fic Talk > I Challenge You....
March challenge - What's the Score?
Carter-Orange:
I've got an idea!
Purpura Lipstick:
since you said something about instrumental or lyrical I'm assuming the song does not have to be a BSB song. ... I'm pretty sure but I want to double check before my mind gets set on a song.
julilly:
In case anyone else is still perplexed, think of these great scenes from movies:
Wind Beneath My Wings in Beaches - not about Bette Midler actually being a bird, rather telling the story of a close friendship. It plays in the movie during the scenes in which Barbara Hershey is dying and Bette Midler is tending to her.
Hip To Be Square in American Psycho - seems totally out of place but when Christian Bale is hacking Jared Leto to bits with an axe the irony of the fact that a poppy top 40 hit by Huey Lewis and the News is playing in the background somehow works. That song playing makes Christian Bale come off as a thousand times as crazy because of how out of place it is.
I Believe I Can Fly in Space Jam. The song plays right off the top credits during a flashback scene to 1973 in which a young Michael Jordan is playing basketball outside his childhood home. The song builds an inspirational undertone to the scene while young Michael is listing off all the things he plans to do (college basketball, the NBA, then major league baseball) to which his father replies, "Then what? You going to fly?" tying the lyrics from the song into the scene.
Those are just some of the ways that songs and stories can work together! A better example of something literal would be a music video.
julilly:
--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on March 01, 2012, 02:05:11 PM ---since you said something about instrumental or lyrical I'm assuming the song does not have to be a BSB song. ... I'm pretty sure but I want to double check before my mind gets set on a song.
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Nope, not at all! I just used those as examples because I knew they'd be songs everyone knew :)
FrickFrackGirl:
The very first fic I ever wrote was a song fic. For those who aren't sure what one is, I'll post it to give you an idea..
http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=8972&warning=4
And it's really odd that this is this month's challenge. I've been toying with an idea for another song fic for a while now..and just thought about it yesterday and then I see this today..lol. Guess this is my chance to write it!
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