Creation of the music

The music was the first and also the last element within the film. Lexy wrote the songs on guitar back in the summer of 2015. Once the the group had been formed, my first task was to find a piansit and a music producer. The pianist would turn out to be with us on set, playing a midi keyboard, through Logic X and then transmitted to the Puretone earpiece via Sennheiser radio packs.

For the pianist, I tried to look as local as possible. I first contacted the Guildford School for Acting (GSA) as their courses are very heavily music based. Unfortunately none of their students were available. We then decided to get into contact with a fellow student, Urmas Salu. Luckily enough his filming dates did not clash with our own and so he was able to help out on the shoots.

For the music producer we decided to use  Mandy.com. I posted up an advertisement, requesting for any musician from across the the south of England to help us. A man called Carl Harries sent us over his work and we went from there. The director and the producers deliberated  and out of all the candidates, it was decided that Carl would be our man.

Whilst on set we recorded all of Urmas' piano. It was then logged and given to the editor, Kimmy. Depending on what takes Kimmy decided to use in the edit it would determine the take of the piano recording. Every take was different, a beat here and there made all the difference so it was important that Kimmy had the correct piano piece to work with.

Once the edit was complete the edited film, without music was sent to Carl. We had already asked him, during pre-production, to create some demo tracks. These were altered and changed throughout the whole of production and after a couple of visits to his home studio in Swindon, we had our final pieces of music.

The video shows the difference between the raw piano and the final piece.