Me and my brother Joe have finally finished the song we are going to use for the dance sequence. Using Logic, we were able to incorporate everything I was looking for - a house beat of around 130bpm, an interesting bassline and most importantly a slow climax in the music which would alert the viewer that something wasn't 'quite right'. I think I achieved this through the minor synth which kicks in half way, and also the increase of reverb on the vocals.
For the voice in the track, we sampled a Beyonce acapella called 'Me Myself and I', before pitching it up and reverbing it. These snippets of vocals are common in modern dance music, especially house - where the clipped words and sounds form actually part of the melody. Here, the sound 'eee eee' becomes the focus point of the whole song, as it does in song like 'au seve' by Julio Bashmore:
We also incorporated a single sound of a reverbing drum from the song 'Alberto Balsam' by Aphex Twin:
This is really not obvious, but I thought using this particular sound would make our 'house' track more unique as it's not the kind of thing you might usually hear in mainstream music.
This screen grab shows the process we went through in building the song, on the left hand side you can see the different tracks, from the garage bass to the clap, to Beyonce's audio and at the very bottom the resounding minor chord that kicks in as Alfie is seen dancing with Helena. I found it really fun to create this piece, and by teaching myself how to use the programme I hope I will be able to use it future projects. Overall, I am really happy with the result. I think it's realistic (something you could well hear in a club) yet fits the scene exactly and the feeling of unease.
Here is the final song (I didn't take the picture in the background)
