Sound Poll

As mentioned in my Editing Sound blog post, we have been focusing on sound experimentation with regard to what suits the mood and intensity desired for the opening. In doing so we have struggled to decide upon the sound for the glitch within the scenes without with party. The absence of any sound, we believed, made it appear unfinished and reduced the level of intensity. However, the use of a whispering sound effect may not allow for a big enough contrast in the glitch similarly detract attention from the concept of distressed sound of mind. To resolve this, we edited two versions of the glitch to upload to YouTube, one with the whispering and on without out for people to give their opinion. Which ever version proves most popular, we will edit into the final cut of our opening.

Glitch Edit

Editing Sound

Over the past few lessons, after accumulating the majority of out footage, we have been focusing heavily on our sound editing. As a group, we have decided to explore a mixture of both diegetic and non diegetic sound throughout the film opening with use of uncopyrighted sound to layer with  the recorded ambient sound of the running sequence, for example. Use of the website FreeSound is proving to be very useful with finding numerous options for us to play around with to decide what suits the tone of our film. We want to immediately create a sense of intensity and mystery, initiated by the seemingly feminine and contradictory style of the titles. In editing, the rapid pace of straight cuts with interspersed black screen accompanied by a ringing sound  (inspired by The Missing) creates the desired sense of anticipation for the first half of the opening, acting as mirror for the state of mind of the protagonist largely in the glitch sequence. The second half of the opening will see a much more continuous use of sound, slightly quieter non diegetic sound and enhanced ambient  sound (as oppose to sole use of foley sound) with a longer sequence of match on action. A direct contrast between the two halves of the opening will create a consistent sense of mystery for the audience, as well as introduction to the seemingly vulnerability of the lead character and her clear distress.