Sound

We decided to include music in our film opening, we got our non copyright music from http://audio.lgfl.org.uk/. After going through a variety of music pieces as a group, we finalised it down to four. We tried each piece of music against our film before finally deciding on the one that fitted best. To match our film opening we needed a fast but sad piece of music, the music chosen emphasised obvious emotions as the music notes used were low and singular giving a dramatic impression. We only used one piece of music throughout our opening, this was so the genre of the film was kept the same throughout. Choosing the music was very important to our film opening as we wanted to allow the audience to notice the genre, without giving too much away. We were extremely pleased with our music selection as we really believed it gave the correct feel to our film opening.

We had a few complications when inserting the music against our video as we had chosen a louder piece, this made it very hard for the voice over to be heard. By toning down the sound of the music we had to fade away the music slowly, this was done over a long length of our opening. We faded away the music by using a sound transition which was very complicated to use, it took us a long time to get the transition in correct places as the music needed to be louder in some places more than others. Although we managed to fade away our music eventually, by being able to control the sound of the piece we could have created a much more emotional feel.

The hardest part about the music, was getting it to rise and fall in correct places, by editing techniques on shots, the voice over and music we were able to correctly time our film opening so it would fade into each shot smoothly.