Sound

Using the website http://audio.lgfl.org.uk/, a copy right free music website we decided on 4 pieces of music to try on top of the film so we could decide which one suited it best. We were only really looking for one sound genre as we wanted the same piece of music to be played through-out the opening. We went for a piece that sounded sad yet dramatic to give the audience a clue of what to expect from the rest of the film. We were very happy with our music choice and thought it really made the footage more emotion and dramatic.

Complications we had with our music on top of our footage was that it was very loud and made it hard to hear the voice-overs, but there was no way of changing the volume. We also wanted the music to very slowly fade to silence, we found trying to make this happen very hard as we had to use a sound transition which was not easy to do. I think that is we could have toned down the music a little and made it fade how was wanted it to - it could have been more effective.

We found getting the music in the correct timing with the rest of the sound (voice-overs) and footage challenging. We accomplished this by using editing techniques on the shots, voice overs and music so each one after the other would fade correctly into each other.