Entry #12: Serious Sounds

Mood: Cooperative

Hey! Today, Srishti and I decided to edit the intruder scenes together, since they are mostly completed. I thought it would be best if we made these decisions together because the film needs to match both of our visions, which are luckily in sync (thank goodness we work so well together)! 

After doing the usual trimming, splitting, cutting, and adding of clips, we shifted our focus to sound. A lot of the sounds of footsteps, opening of doors, etc. were evident in the footage, so the addition of any sound effects and foley will be left to a minimum; we will only add effects is they seem necessary to convey the purpose of the scene.

Then, we had a small issue with the transition of sounds. Filming at night, we had a large amount of ambient sounds such as crickets chirping and airplanes flying overhead; however, these sounds were not consistent through every shot. As a result, the transition from one intruder scene to another was not as smooth as we hoped because the sound changes were noticeably abrupt. To remedy this, we played with the sound levels and tried detaching the audio and moving it around, seeing if we could make everything cohesive. Greatly to our benefit, it sounds a lot more natural now that we've edited it (how ironic...). 

With that taken care of, we looked at the music that we found a while back from YouTube's audio library (check it out here if you need a refresher). The first song, Chase Pulse Faster, was intended for the intruder scenes. Originally, we added the song to the beginning of the intruder scenes, but it was way too intense for the introduction of the character. Srishti and I burst into a fit of laughter at how ridiculous it sounded while the intruder was just sitting in the car because it was unnecessary at that point. Instead, we added the song to later footage, where the intruder enters the house and is on a mission. In order to make the background music less overwhelming, we lowered the sound level to about 30%. I'm excited about how good it sounds because I'm not very skilled when it comes to sound editing.

When we begin editing the scenes with the girls, we will consider adding another song that we found. I will update once that happens!


"Audio Library." YouTube. Google, n.d. Web. 19 Mar. 2016. 
     <https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music>. 

Chase Pulse Faster by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100384

Artist: http://incompetech.com/