Sound Ideas

At this point in editing, all we needed to do is perfect the audio and do some minor touch ups to the footage. However, as a group, we decided that the ideas for our audio that we have had so far don't really work. For the chase scene, the music created is too classical to fit with the "slasher" genre, and for the death scene, what I have made sounds too much like Se7en's opening title sound.

Going on an intensive research session in our media lesson, we came across four sounds, on YouTube, that worked better with our footage that what we have currently. Below shows the sounds that we found, with annotation on what we are thinking of doing with it:


We liked this sound track initially for the chase scene having the strong beats of which we could link with the editing- changing in shots.


However, on further research, we came to prefer this sound for the chase scene, it sounding more "scary" than the previous one. It also has this intensifying sound at the end of the extract, that would link really nicely to the struggle between the killer and the victim at the end of the chase scene.


Starting at 1:18, we found this sound track that we felt would work really well for the death scene- with the diegetic sounds that Annie has planned to incorporate playing over the top in the appropriate places. It adds suspense, brings more of an atmosphere to the footage, and links nicely with the intense and gory footage.


To be on the safe side, however, we decided to carry on our research to find one alternative soundtrack that we could take inspiration from to go along with the death scene footage. We chose the sound shown above as it would be good as background non-diegetic sound if putting more focus on diegetic sounds that would play along side it.

To conclude this post, we now have more of an idea of what to do for the audio of our film opening. Its just a case of manipulating the sounds at our disposal and creating an audio that is of top quality.