MUUUUUUUUSIC or not?

SOUND

a concept that is very important in film making.

In our story, it plays a key part, to understand the characters better.

We were debating wether to start the establishing shot with city noises like this:

or with the song like this:

Also we don't know if we were debating wether to put the voice over in the establishing shot or when the guy is walking.

So we decided on starting the opening scene with the establishing shot of city noises and the credits and the poem starts half way through and goes into when we first see the guy as he is walking to the train station listening to a podcast on business (to introduce his interests), and you can listen to the city sounds as he walks (like what Cuaron decribes in Roma)  and then he hears music faintly and is curious so he removes his headphones and the music grows louder as he approaches the girl, and then the music is the only sound, until it stops when the girl is about to fall and you can hear a train passing. 

We have to figure out how to edit the sound to what we want, so that it has that powerful effect, because like Cuaron describes, it is as important as the image.  We will be using Final Cut Pro, which i've used before. I started editing with IMovie, so transitioning to FCP was easy, I'm still figuring out, and since my computer can't support the program I have to edit in a friends PC, hopefully that works out. He is more savvy with sound mixing and editing so I'll ask for some advice.

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McKenna, Zachary, director. Establishing Shot of the City. YouTube, YouTube, 5 May 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-6wPlahzSg.

Hipes, Patrick. “For 'Roma', The Sounds Are As Important To Alfonso Cuarón As The Images – Watch The Featurette.” Deadline, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2019, deadline.com/2019/01/roma-sound-design-alfonso-cuaron-memories-featurette-netflix-1202528025/.

X2, director. Beautiful Establishing Shots Compilation in Movies [HD] by X2Beautiful Establishing Shots Compilation in Movies [HD] by X2. YouTube, YouTube, 15 Jan. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axt0nETgEXo&t=11s.