Audio

AUDIO

For our opening sequence the group and I have found and made some music, sound effects and voice overs to use. Here is what we have uses, more specifically:

MUSIC

Originally, we found it quite hard to find music suitable for our theme. Our opening sequence is really split into two sections where Hannah is innocent and where she is rebellious and dark, so we really needed two separate soundtracks to represent this change.

We decided on using 'Little Cloud' by Johnny Ripper for part 1 and 'Techtonic Shift' on Free play music.

'Little Cloud' is a very calming slow paced song, it fits our beginning half of the opening sequence as it creates an angelic atmosphere.

'Tectonic Shift' contrasts this with the eerie-ness in which it creates. However, to achieve the atmosphere in which we have it was with help of the sound effects.

Here is where we got our music from:

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/johnny_ripper/

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search.aspx?q=tectonic%20shift

SOUND EFFECTS

In our opening sequence, the sound effects have played a vital role in building up an atmosphere. We have used a series of sound effects such as:

• Glitch noises
• TV glitches
• Reversed laughing
• 'Boom' effect
• Ear ringing effects
• 'Shh' sound effect

Without these sound effects the audio would sound bland and would leave a dull atmosphere. Although, we did find it quite difficult to place the sound effects at the appropriate times; it took a while for us to get the hang of it. In my opinion, the best person to do it was Hannah.

VOICE OVER

For our voice over we chose to take Alvrado's Four Key Racial Theme into play and decided on a Spanish man (the actual killer) to do a voice over in Spanish. To a predominantly white, British audience the idea of a foreign man having a conversation to the audience may throw them off-guard. On a Friday after school, Alice and I went to Alice's house to start filming with her older brother Harry (who studies Spanish at Portsmouth University) saying our script but in Spanish, On the whole, it took us about an hour and a half to begin and finish this, Here is a sneak peak of our voice-over in MUTE: