Week 6 - Composing the Song

During this weeks lessons, Maria and I started composing and jotting ideas down for the song which will be played throughout the whole performance. As I said in my previous blog post we researched some already existing pieces of music, listened to some horror related songs and even took ideas from the songs that we composed last year for the Me,Myself and I project and I must say that composing a song is extremely hard! On top of that we were only two doing the music part, so we really had to have put our thinking caps on for these lessons. However, we have managed to compose the whole song that Maria will be playing while I will be narrating the story.  We are thinking to add some other instruments on top so the music doesn't sound monotone, like the triangle at the end (candy land = happy) and the drums (alleyway = scary and spooky). We decided that during the introduction, the song which is going to be played, we wanted to give the affect of it fading away so when Maria is playing I will be decreasing the volume of the keyboard to give the effect of the music vanishing. Even though we have completed the whole musical piece, we still have doubts on some of the parts because the alleyway part (scary) of the song is completely different to the candy land part which is happy and joyful and also if the music is playing then the boom wont have the same effect on the audience. Maria and I were trying to solve these dilemmas and came up with a few solutions like decreasing the volume of the keyboard when the 'boom' part happens or completely stop playing when I will be reading that part. For the other dilemma of joining each parts to create a complete, fluent song, Maria thought of creating other parts to the song but we wouldn't have enough time during the performance for that and it didn't really sound good. So next lesson our goal is to have a finished amazing musical composition ready for the rehearsal we should be having in two weeks.


Below is the video of Maria playing the introduction