For 35 seconds of our film there is a music track which needed to be a piece of music well known and could act as a signifier for George’s young love with his wife. For this we chose to do a cover of a track we liked and was agreed by the Director. This track was Vangelis’s ‘One More Kiss, Dear’, which originates from the film Bladerunner. After researching with PRS as you can see here, we went on to make a cover of the track. We recorded and played this track ourselves. I worked out the key and chord pattern’s of the song by ear then proceeded by adding a bass guitar, vocals and some improvised piano parts over the top. For recording the vocals themselves, we wanted to get them as close to the sound we wanted as possible. We did this through using a ribbon microphone and an old broadcast microphone. This created a really warm sounding vocal, this made life easier when mixing the track to make it sound like the original – and like it was coming through a radio.
For the scene itself we have automated the EQ for when the shot is focused on his face to make the music feel like it’s taking over, and intensifies as the character begins to show his sadness.
We wanted this piece to sound as good as possible which I felt we achieved in the timescale we did it in. The reason we decided to create a cover rather than compose a track was because it is one of the biggest signifiers of the relationship George had between his wife and had always been a pinnacle point within the script.
