Choosing a Sound

When it came to choosing music and sound effects my group decided it would be best to either use YouTube or iMovie. Though I could have tried get permission to use music that is usually copyrighted, my group decided against this because it would likely take a long wait. Also, the music my group needed for the clips was very find. After deciding on this my group then chose between YouTube and iMovie to use music from. YouTube has a large array of copyright free music. However, the music, jingles, and sound effects are included with iMovie on a royalty free basis. Also, it is much more efficient to use the iMovie option especially because my group is using iMovie to edit. Due to this my group decided to go with the iMovie option. I then spent a while looking through all of the music options iMovie provides. There are many choices but I was specifically looking for music that had a somewhat suspenseful feeling to it. Though my genre is sci-fi, my group was trying to give a suspenseful mood in a sci-fi setting and environment. I then decided on the soundtrack called The Dark by Patrick Warren. As far as suspenseful soundtracks go, this one works pretty well. It gives off the effect like something is going to happen or that something already happened. My group decided to use this soundtrack with the title sequence and at the ending. By doing this it establishes a sort of musical foreshadowing and is confirmed by its reoccurrence at the ending. Besides incorporating the soundtrack into the title sequence it wasn't very hard to use the soundtrack again at the ending. It took a little bit of trial and error to make sure it aligned properly but besides that it worked well. Moreover. I spent some time looking over the possible sound effects. After looking at them all I narrowed the possible options to what I think might be good to use. This includes: camera shutter, clock tick, electricity, footsteps, frogs, laser, Morse code, monster roar, phone busy signal, and seagulls. The seagulls and frogs options work well at the beginning of the film and directly after the intro. Phone busy signal, laser, electricity, footsteps, and monster roar help by adding some more suspense. These options could be used during the rising action and climax of the film. Clock tick can be used periodically as a non-diegetic sound and Morse code can make the base scenes seem more sci-fi with electronic like sounds. Though all of these sound effects and the soundtrack have been put into the film, they are not the final decision. My group agrees that they work well, however, no final decision can be made until the film has been reviewed, which will happen next.


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