Music

With all of the filming for my production now completed, I've moved onto looking at the sounds that will feature throughout, specifically music. The last 30 seconds of the film features Clare's dead body along with her Mum standing at her gravestone. In the background of these scenes, I had always planned to have a guitar playing some sad music to help emphasise the emotion within these scenes. There are many ways I went about trying to do this.
Firstly, I began doing some research online into royalty free music, meaning I could use it without having any copyright issues. After looking online for a while, I managed to find many websites that offered copyright free music, however the style and sound of the guitar work didn't quite match what I had in mind for my production, and so I decided not to go with this idea.
Instead, I began having conversations with my Dad, who can play acoustic guitar, about what I wanted in my film and how I wanted it to sound. We then spent time on his guitar trying to create what I wanted (him playing with me constantly talking about what I wanted changing to fit my production). After a while, we were able to come up with some guitar work that could feature at the end of my film when we see Clare dead. I am not entirely sure which one I will put in my film yet, and so as I starting point I have embed them all below within SoundCloud.



Reflective Comment:
I think that having music featured in my film that I have helped create myself will work a lot better for my production because it is much more of what I wanted and sounds exactly how I imagined it rather than having to use a piece from the internet that sounds very different. To improve this post, I could have perhaps include more of a variety of sounds with the guitar tracks, however I need them all to sound similar so that they fit the scenario my film has created.

Foley Sounds

Now that I have all of the scenes for my film completely done, I have begun to think about the sound effects that I will need. I've decided that the ending scene in my film after Clare dies will have sad music playing and so no sound effects will be needed for this. As for the rest of my film, there are some scenes were I require some sound effects, and my first aim is to try and create them myself.

• Message sent sound: As Clare sends each message to Tom, I want to try and have a sound that acknowledges that the message has been sent. With the iPhone, there is the familiar 'swoosh' sound which would be ideal. However, using this would be copyright and so I am going to look into creating my own, or if I can't finding a free effect online.

• Message receiving sound: As Tom replies to each message I want to have a sound of Clare's laptop receiving that message. Again, I can't use any already existing ones as this could class as copyright, so I will try and find something that is 'royalty free; or attempt to create my own.

• Stabbing sound on Clare: When Clare is down the alley she is stabbed by who we assume is Tom. To make this scene as realistic as possible, I want to try and create a sound of this stabbing to shock the audience. After looking online, I've found that there are some royalty free sounds of someone being stabbed, so this is an option for me.

• Footsteps: I've noticed that throughout my film there seems to be a lot of silence, and so adding in simple things such as footsteps will help bring it all together and make it seem more real. These will be fairly easy to create as I just have to record steps on whatever surface the character is walking at the time.

Reflective Comment:

Looking at the foley sounds for my piece has helped to move me forward with completing my film. With these considered, I can now begin to try and create them or if not look online to find them. To make this point better I could have included examples of the sounds, but it isn't easy to embed them from the internet without downloading them and I don't want to do that until I'm sure of what I need. Overall I think this post works well by talking about the different sound effects I need and how I'm planning to create them.