Making The Music Sound Track - Introduction

We had many ideas when it came to the sound track of the OTS. One was to have a self-written, performed and recorded song, performed by some people at school. This felt like a good idea because I took Music GCSE and got an A* for one of my compositions and a B for the other, so I could write a piece for this OTS but we had constraints of time and of performer availability.
Another idea was to use royalty free music but we all felt that was cheating and we wouldn't be able to achieve the right sound for our OTS. We had to meet somewhere in the middle and seeing as we were using the macs in our Media Studies classroom to do research and just general work and editing, I thought of using Garage band. With that we could actually make a sound that we liked using loops of different instruments and it didn't feel like cheating too much because we actually created that music using samples.