SOUND DESIGN AND EDITING AND ORGANISATION

By Charlie Rideout

Sound design

During my production I had to edit the sound. I did this by editing the amplitude by adding different key frames. I also added fades to make the sound crescendo and add more tension. Doing this also prevents the audience from being blasted the audience to quickly. I additionally copied and pasted specific sounds that I like, such as the ambient noises that I used to create a tense atmosphere with in the audiences ranks. I had three different tracks when editing one for dialogue, one for ambient sounds and one for music as you can see on the next page. I did this to make it easy to edit so that they were not all mixed up. I additionally added some effects to the sounds such as a reverb on the non-diegetic music; this added further tension. I also decided to us dubstep because it is the teenage stereotypical music, this is supposed to be diegetic as it should seem like it is coming from the radio. It then ends when they shut the car door. This then goes into the ambient sounds, it then gradually builds into the suspending terror music. I chose this music as I felt it was extremely suspense building and perfect for the genre we were conveying.

Sound design

This is my dialogue track

This is my music track

The ambient sound track

This are my key frames I added to change the volume at specific times

These the fades that I added

Editing and organisation

I made sure that I had all of my video clips in the same place and made sure that they were labelled so that it was easy to choose the right clip. They were saved in the E: drive in order to prevent the rendering from staling which it did if they were not all in one place.

When editing I added various effects. I added a blood splatter effect by adding one layer over the top of another. I then changed the alpha channel to unmatted this then make the blood splatter seem realistic. Additionally I cut numerous clips in order to made the match on action make sense. Furthermore I changed the brightness on the outside shots because it was meant to be dusk. In order to made it seem scary and to make it fit with conventional mysterious darkness of horror films. I also did some jump cuts to make it seem scary I did this by cutting at 2 second intervals. I also used a fade to black and then back up at the start to make it go with the conventional opening sequence. I also animated my text by changing the colour from red to white. This connotes murder and hope.

Editing

This is my blood splat on the video over lay layer

In these shots I changed the darkness

I added fades

I animated my text by changing the colour