Editing session 11

12/01/12

Today we worked on sound. I showed my group the soundtracks I looked at on freeplaymusic and Kayleigh and Jamie liked the 'Inner Beauty' track and also 'Abandoned Infirmary'. We all decided the 'Abandoned Infirmary' soundtrack would be best suitable for the majority of the trailer and we would add 'Inner Beauty' over the top for the montage. This sounded really well as both soundtracks were in sync with the action in the shots and the transitions. Also, as we were inspired by the 'You're Next' trailer for the montage, we made the soundtrack sound like it was glitching in sync with every other shot as this sounded like weapons scraping, linking to previous shots in the trailer.

This is the beginning of the trailer with the 'Abandoned Infirmary' soundtrack:

We had to cut down the soundtrack and also repeat some parts of 'Abandoned Infirmary' during the disruption before the montage as we tried to build up the sound throughout the trailer by it gradually getting louder and faster. However, we had difficulties doing this as we tried layering sound, increasing the volume and speeding it up x2, but I didn't feel as though these changes made it any better so we are yet to alter this section in our next editing session.

I experimented with sound effects like I said I wanted to yesterday by repeating a doorbell sound effect from Final Cut Pro X. Personally I didn't like it as I felt it didn't sound realistic and neither did the other members of my group so we didn't include it.

Here I wanted to re-include the sound of keys rattling during the shot of Maddie trying to get out the door during the montage after we originally decided we didn't want it. However I thought it would sound effective and action packed on top of the soundtrack, therefore we detached the audio from the shot and repeated it over the top.

Here Kayleigh and I wanted to have the sound of the antagonist scraping the shovel along the floor over the previous shot so they both lead on from each other. We enhanced the sound of the scraping and also faded it into the shot after so it flowed smoother and didn't suddenly go into a silent shot.

Tomorrow, my group and I will continue to edit and try to gradually build up the sound so it because adrenaline rushing and from my audience research, this is what makes a trailer frightening. We all agreed to find a track that we could use for this and this is what I found on You Tube: