Planning and research towards soundtrack

We wanted the music to emphasise the acting we had, using beats in music to make actions sharper and softer or louder and faster music for bigger climaxes. We wanted a piece of music that sounded a bit off edge with a heavy bass beat and helped to represent the main character's personality as the music is most heavily used in actions of this character.

We started by finding parts of songs we liked and narrowed it down to :
Blood sugar-Pendulum
The rapture-Echoes
Closer-Kings of leon
Crawl-kings of leon
love lockdown-kanye west
This is an emergency-Pidgeon Detectives
Can you give it - the maccabees

But these songs only had certain parts we liked and found when we tried to mix them together it didnt work so well.
Then we found Staring at the sun by TV on the Radio


This had just the right feel we were goin for as it starts with a heavy beat and then speeds up when the vocals join and slow down.We were originaly going to try and get rid of the vocals but this proved difficult as the frequency of the vocals was the same as the lower parts' meaning that we couldnt get rid of it without getting rif of some of the instruments aswell. However some of the vocals were relevant to our song and have cut and pasted the vocals of the track into parts which we thought enhanced the video and acted almost like a narrator. We cut the beginning with the voices as although this was effective it was too long and flat so we looped the beginning bass intro and then cut to the vocals and faded out at the end. We did this using the software programme Audacity. Here is some of the steps in pictures.
The Track before we started




Track after we'd cut the intro

Finished track