Mel's speech and background music

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Here is a recording of melissa's voice over. Looking back at the original speech, I have made some changes.

"Have you ever doubted your existence and confused a dream with real life? Something inside you changes. The thoughts running through your head seem different, you feel detached from everything around you.
No colour, no life, just escape. Am I insane? No, I'm normal, this is normal. So what happens now? Do we run? No. We smile. We smile because we know something's wrong and these questions need answering.

And then I wake up with the sudden realization. I am alone."


I had to make the speech shorter as it was originally 0:49 seconds, and my whole trailer is 1:30. I have managed to shorten it to 0:33 thus giving me more time to add other clips. 


I recorded her voice using logic pro 7. I then added reverb to give a natural echo to the voice, channel EQ to boost/cut specific frequencies, a slight echo to give it an eerie feel and a compressor to make the sound louder. 


The gained inspiration for her voice over by looking at a number depersonalization/dissociative disorder based blogs. 


"Common descriptions include a feeling of being outside one's body; "floating on the ceiling looking down at myself" feeling as if one's body is dissolving or changing; feeling as if one is a machine or robot; "unreal" feeling that one is in a dream or that one"is on automatic pilot." Most patients report a sense of emotional detachment or uninvolvement, or a sense of emotional numbing. Depersonalization differs from "derealization," which is a dissociative symptom in which people perceive the external world as unreal, dreamlike, or changing. The various ways that people experience depersonalization are related to their bodies or their sense of self." 
(http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Depersonalization-disorder.html)



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This is the background music I have decided to use. I composed it myself using the chords Dm, A#, Gm, Am and F. I the majority of chords used are in a minor key. This is because Minor keys are used to create eerie and depressing atmospheres. I started out by improvising notes from each scale and then overlapping them and harmonizing them. I then used the cut tool to cut each section up and then mix them about. Previously I had looked at Philip Glass and Terry Reich for inspiration for background music, as i wanted my piece to sound minimalist. So once I had composed the piece, as well as mixing the sections up, i began to phase shift. (This is heard at the end of the piece) where the section is played on repeat but shifted a bar later so when the sections overlap, it creates either a harmonic or dissonant tone.