Music

For out film opening we plan to have music playing over our clips before our main character begins to talk. For the music we are going to create our own unique sounds on a programme called garage Band. We have looked at a range of thriller film opening and listened well to the mood of the music played in them. We plan to create music that plays and then fades out just before the speaking part of our film opening starts.

We started off by playing around with the different sounds on garage band so that we were familiar with the programme and understood how to use it.  we then started to put different sounds together in a way that we thought would sound good in our film opening. 

(Above shows a print screen of what we had first made on garageband during our first attempts)

After our first attempt we had a rough sound that we thought would sound good in our film we just had to make changes to it so that we were able to have the music fade out how we planned.

(Above shows a print screen of the more improved version of our film openings music. This is not complete but we feel that at this stage we were very close to completing our music in the way that we wanted)

We have the editing for our film opening complete so from that we have been working out the timing of our music and figuring out when the right time to fade the music out would be. We have used a range of loops on Garage Band to create our music using a range of different instruments. Some instruments that we have used in our music are: Electric & Acoustic Guitar, along with Percussion, Strings, Viola, Timpani. Along with these instruments we used track panning to change the volume of the music throughout and create a dramatic non-diegetic soundtrack for our film. By creating this we have made it fit in with the genre of our film. For a thriller film we needed to create tension between the audience and the character in the film. With the use of our film editing sequences and the music we have produced to go with it i feel that we have achieved the standard needed to make a good thriller film opening.

Editing: Session 3

Today we started adding credits into our film. We did this after researching the order that the credits should be shown in. once we had the order and names that we intended to use we placed them all in a positioned them in our film opening in places that we thought would be appropriate. 

(Above shows a print screen of a part of  our film that includes credits)  

We managed to add all of the credits into our film in this double lesson. Next lesson we plan to add in the Music and voice over so that we can get audience feedback on our film once everything has been added in.

(Above is a screen shot of Final Cut Express during our editing process)