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Sound notes

 Final product notes

Songs used:

  • In headphones - One way or another - Blonde
    • White Flag - Dido
    • Fool's Gold - Stone roses - pitched down 7 semitones during title sequence

  • Main headphones song - What you won't do for love - Bobby Caldwell
    • reverb slowly added during train leaving sequence
    • Headphone effect created through compressor and high frequencies

  • Running song - Threatened - Alex Bess - copyright free
    • faded in during exit of station
    • built up slowly
    • missed with aforementioned rhythmic reverb
    • Until face paced section - every first beat of every 4 bars reversed
      • then every first beat of every 2 bars reversed
      • then every first beat of each bar until final scene
      • used in order to build tension




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