Sound

Sound

Ambient Music:
Much of our ambient music will be diegetic sounds, such as the sound of a gun and the phone ringing. All of the diegetic sounds that we need for our opening sequence can be found on final cut pro and Charlie and I will have to make sure that the sounds are edited well in order to fit in with the scene and not break the suspense that we want to create. We have to be careful when editing in the sound of the phone ringing as it could be quite tacky and ruin the atmosphere of the opening sequence and similarly with the sound of the gun shooting during blackout, but we will probably test this before we start filming to make sure it works.

Due to the panning shots of the London skyline and the Car Park scene, we might have to deal with the issue of ambient noise coming from the cars and or people in the background. It is important for us to deal with this in order not to loose tension in the scene, as it could be very distracting. This is where the soundtrack is important as final cut will allow us to remove these natural sounds and leave the backing track to create the different moods that we want. Suspense and tension are the key elements to our film and we have to be especially careful when editing in the sound to keep the suspense of the film where we want it, otherwise the whole mood and atmosphere could be lost in a split second.

Our opening sequence doesn't just use diegetic sounds. We also use the Non-Diegetic sounds of the voice over, which goes on all throughout the opening sequence. We have already done some research into films that use a voice over and seen that it can work extremely well and we are sure that we can create a similar effect. Voice overs are not used very often in movies and so we want to make sure that it works well to create our desired effect.

Charlie and I have a couple of friends who may be able to write us a soundtrack for our opening sequence as we are not skilled musicians ourselves. We are not allowed to use copyright music in our opening and so will need to look elsewhere for our soundtrack. One place we could use is Sound-cloud. However, the music Charlie and I want to use in our film is not something, which is often created in today's modern music world and so might be difficult to find the style we want.

MT