How to write a Hard Dance/UK Hardcore melody

Well, this ended up being a different video than planned, but I hope that including everything that happened helps out more than scrapping the video and redoing it would have. This captures the entire process and all the difficulties along the way. Come and learn production with me - 0:00 - Intro 0:56 - Picking a character 5:24 - Writing a top line 27:07 - Why does this melody work? 30: