The document discusses post-production sound editing for a film trailer. It describes choosing an instrumental hip hop song by Lethal Bizzle that fits the trailer shots and target audience. The sound editor used Final Cut Pro to fade between diegetic dialogue and non-diegetic soundtrack, adjusting volumes to keep the dialogue clear. Feedback indicated the trailer lacked tension, so the editor built it up by fading out the music, focusing on diegetic sounds, and then fading in a heartbeat with shorter shots.

1. Post- Production
Sound

2. Shooting and recording sound

3. Choosing the soundtrack
As a group we knew we wanted a soundtrack that related to our primary target
audience. After listening to the Kidulthood soundtrack we decided to find one
similar or perhaps one with an artist who is well known with our target group.
Bashy was responsible for the To see what music suit our trailer best, we
song associated with the film
Kidulthood, named Kidulthood.
played our choices out on a separate computer
The film would also attract people whist simultaneously playing our trailer.
who are interested in his music
We chose ‘99 Bars Of Revenge
(instrumental)’ this being because the beat
Lethal Bizzle’s music went with the shots in our trailer and It was
attracts an audience kind of music our target audience would be
similar to the one we
want to attract.
into.

4. How I edited sound
I used the software final cut pro to edit sound, this was an appropriate means to edit sound because I
was able to not only fad in and out but I was also able to merge sounds, so two things would be heard
at once an example of this being dialogue and the soundtrack played in the background.
Diegetic and non diegetic sound
Similarly to Kidulthood, I tried to make sure dialogue was
clear whilst the main soundtrack was heard also in the
background, to do this I had to adjust the volume and
experiment with fades. Dialogue which is diegetic sound was
the primary sound that needed to be heard so this was
altered to be louder.
I made sure the volume for the
dialogue was turned up, this was
of important relevance to the
uncovering of the storyline in the
trailer.

5. Building tension with sound
After audience feedback, I found out that our trailer lacked tension or build-up. Rather
than change the editing of the shots, I decided to build tension through sounds.
3) Straight after the foreboding
1) To build tension with dialogue, I then faded in a
sound, I faded out the heartbeat and made the shots
soundtrack that played shorter. This would give lea way
throughout the trailer. to the build up of the trailer
making the audience feel tense.
2) After the fading of the
soundtrack music, I then
made the diegetic music the
main sound heard. This
editing shows the
significance of the dialogue.