Can You Survive?

Music

One area of the film which I believe is important is the use of soundtrack. We all agree that the music score defines the mood of movies and Tom Janssen’s atmospheric composition “is” Can You Survive? To portray a feeling of a repetitive “Groundhog Day” existence the use of a continual tinnitus soundtrack was required. I have heard that suicide is common in those with this affliction, so I figured that this is how I wanted to symbolise Darren’s dismay at his own life. The mechanical and haunting piano themes that appear within the film represent the sorrowful repetitive lives that the two main characters endure, one from paranoia, the other from physical trauma.

As we approach the final chapters of the production, and now we launch the marketing stages, I am reminded of how, just like the first few years of having children seems to be slowly erased from your memory. How there has been very difficult and trying times in the process of piecing it all together, but how you seem to forget this and the prospect of a new project starts to rise over the horizon, and you start to get that feeling trembling through your body that proves to yourself that film making is what you were put on this Earth for. I am broody for further work and when you watch Can You Survive? I hope you will want me to continue.

Peter Owden, Gusano Productions