2. The main soundtrack we decided to use was a instrumental
horror composition that we found on YouTube, we decided
on this soundtrack after narrowing down our research to
three different soundtracks, we finally decided on the
ambient suspense soundtrack as we wanted a subtle sound
that would compliment our footage, also the soundtrack has
many layers to it and when adding it to our footage we
realised that near the end of the sound the composer had
added piano notes that created a very creepy air and after
editing it we fit it to the change near the end of our movie
opening. The music is subtle but still creates the sense of
fear and an air of foreboding, and paired with the rest of the
sound in the opening the effect works really well
3. There wasn’t many other sounds that we used apart from our main sound track, as we decided to
of course not use speech and we also removed the audio in the footage that was captured whilst
filming, we did this because we wanted there to be a lack of sound to further emphasise the
weirdness of what was happening and also to create this tense atmosphere, linking the audience
only to the music helped a lot. The other sounds that we decided to use were subtle, we decided
to use a breathing sound effect in the first scene where there is a tracking shot of the stairs, we
decided to do this because we had already questioned the idea of making it seem as though it
was someone walking up the stairs and this is why we decided to film by hand, so it was only a
matter of coming across a breathing sound effect that began the full idea of someone being
there. I had to edit the sound quite heavily as it was too fast paced and too loud to be used
straight away so I slowed it down by around 25% and then gradually decreased the volume until it
was obvious that you could hear it but also quiet enough to make the audience query it. I also
found another sound effect of the breathing that I used at the end of the movie opening, whilst
the title is coming up, this sound was a deep sigh that I began to think of as the monster in our
movie, as I believe that this sound does complete the idea that the audience may have when first
hearing the breathing as the sound is one of relief again creating a bit more ambiguity the final
sound effect that was used was the sound of Alice falling down that stairs, we question whether
to use this or not but in the end we decided to keep it as it is first of all a very large shock but also
because we didn’t want to leave any impression that Alice did not fall down the stairs.
