This is my final version of Half of Me.

I want to thank everyone who worked so hard on this song, even those of you who's contributions I didn't use, it meant so much to me that you took the time to try and help. I tried to put as many parts in as I could, it just started to get muddled for me at a certain point so that I had to weed it down until I got this final product.
It was very hard for me to do that, especially with xoSasha, macjames61 and SpectrumCJ because I really liked what you guys did, I just couldn't (with my limited expertise) make it work.
So again please don't take it personal if I didn't use you...I loved all the contributions!

a special thanks to hedge, braun22, macjames6, shadowstorm88, and venns who have been with this project since the first day I uploaded it and have spent countless hours tweeking and playing around.

As far as the arrangement, it couldn't have happened without hedge's instrumentation which I used as the guideline for the song, so
thank you thank you thank you!!
also to IlliterateWriter and michellek for the incredibly beautiful violin parts, to Braun22 for being endlessly patient with me and making the bass to my specifications, to ladyAdelaide for the gorgeous piano, to DoctorWorth whose guitar parts I loved and Visitor for giving me the guidelines for the guitar parts I wanted.

AND an extra special thanks to RegularJoe who not only created this incredible website for me and all of you to take advantage of, he also recommend this song and got us all the help we needed.

Notes:
*there's some clacking from the piano sustain pedal.
i couldn't do a thing about it so just close your eyes and pretend she's playing in the room with you

*please listen with head phones :)
I paned the violin and the piano to opposite ears for a surround sound feel


Hitrecord Testimonial: :)
I moved to central Wisconsin from Phoenix, Arizona in January and had to quit all
3 bands I was in to do it. Since i couldn't play any instruments, I felt like a part of me had died and pretty much had no purpose in life. I woke up, worked, ate, and slept like a robot. I felt like half a person. I wrote this song one day last month and the next day I just happened to find Hitrecord.org. I decided that if I was ever going to be able to finish any of my songs again THIS WOULD BE THE PLACE TO DO IT!
so I sat my ass down in front of my computer, learned how to use garage band and pushed myself until I had something worth presenting to you all. The last few weeks of my life have been outstanding! I feel as though I have a purpose and this community has given me a new lease on life, that no matter where I am, I can be connected to other artistis and musicians who like me, want to create, share and LOVE.
I am so HAPPY :D and it's your fault.
Again By Heart,
❥Riana

p.s
if anyone would like to collaborate with me on a new record, this one is in progress :)
http://hitrecord.org/records/132262

ATTENTION:
to all those of you who are being so kind as to remix this, please use this new version.
i re-recorded it in Am. It's still in 94bpm and i added a 3rd harmony to the 2nd verse.
i also used a real microphone as opposed to the built in mic that's on my computer. i think it's much cleaner and i hope i didn't upset anyone =(
i can be a bit of a perfectionist. sigh.

please help a damsel in distress! =)
i'm looking for some instrumentation. i hear (real violin, not synth please) violin, guitar, bass and drums but anything is welcome.
this is obviously very rough, i used minimal reverb, and i didn't auto tune anything so sadly it's a little flat in some places but i can fix that stuff later.
let me know if you need a click track =)
if you need inspiration my influences include:
bat for lashes
beachouse
goldfrapp (older stuff)
blonde redhead
radiohead
portisehead...obviously, i love head.

lyrics are:

i was born on the 3rd of june into a broken family
where words were used as weapons
and love was a bended knee
the genesis of bliss came early for me
they tried to strike if from my bones
but i was already free

now i'm half a person and everybody knows it
that's why i have no real friends and no enemies
what's the use in wasting precious energy on
loving or hating someone like me

i was born to be a fool and
not follow rules set to me
and my words are used as weapons
and my love is a history
the genesis of truth came early to me
and my heart feels no pain
like the pang of reality

now i'm half a person and everybody knows it
that's why i have no real friends and no enemies
what's the use in wasting precious energy on
loving or hating someone like me

i know i could have been great
a real beacon of light
to all those love lorn passengers
of ships passing in the night

Loved Mike's "Into The Night" audio, so I cut it down to make a trailer for Summer in the City. :)

Public domain footage is what MattConley used: http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.31144

Graphite Drawing, Originaly done for a class assignment to create a poster, I chose to do this image for an Austin City Limits poster, here it is featured without text.

Hey guys! Thanks for everyone posting in the other thread where I've hosted version 1! However I felt it was appropriate that people should be able to download the film uploaded here on hit record so its more easily downloadable as a resource, and is searchable in the database!

I am currently writing an epic essay about the work flow, which ill be adding to this thread once the films uploaded! Im posting parts of it on the old thread for the film, but i'll be shifting them over here!

Im so grateful to the artists whose work i was able to use, and to whom I could contribute! Metaphorest, Jenyffer, Lula and Joe and everyone just blew me away.

When I see what people are making here, and are aspiring too (me too!) I think wow, this is the kind of work i enjoy - to me this art, is what entertains me. To see us work together and develop ever more ambitious projects that Hit Record can eventually share with the world, to eventually become self sustaining - is one of the most exciting things ive seen occur in the creative industries.

So im waffling there - but exciting times!

Version 2 - will be including a number of graphic improvements, extra shots here and there, particularly to credits! Ive asked for ideas and suggestions in the last thread but deffo port them over here and ill give them a good consider!

A Special Thanks to MattConley, who helped me get this monster up here. I really appreciated the help. - S

I redid Everything is on Fire with idea that we were looking at and into the madness of an insomniac who hasn't slept in days.

Everything else in here that's not from hit record is public domain footage.