Music:
When choosing music, we wanted a track that provided a highly tense atmosphere. However through researching royalty free music with the keywords 'tension' and 'action' we deciphered that a large majority of the music we found, had an incredibly heightened dramatic atmosphere reminiscent of the horror genre, rather than the action genre. Therefore we ended up deciding not to use music, as it didn't fit effectively to the visuals of the opening scene, and instead replaced it with a loud hum or buzzing noise which underscored the entirety of the piece, in coherence with the sound effects.
Sound:
Post-production we used a microphone to record the layer of sound and edit it separately. This ensured we would avoid hearing muffled or static sounds through background noise; (particularly when we were filming outside in the sounding arch, with a high wind velocity) which makes our piece sound more professional and this post production technique is heavily utilised in the industry. We recorded sounds such as Emily struggling to escape from the ropes, the guard's footsteps as he walks away, a phone conversation between the guard and finally the radio transmission narration at the beginning.
We had to use some sound effects found online as we were unable to record them ourselves, such as a rock scraping on the ground. We then edited this effect to make it fit with the stone onscreen.
Certain sounds, such as the radio transmission, we then edited to sound 'muffled' and 'static', the narration mirroring the sound of dialogue from an old radio. This was particularly effective, as it formulated a tense atmosphere to the opening of the film and provided narrative background to the story, allowing the audience to easily interpret the action that occurs throughout the opening.
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