Process of Constructing Our Opening Title Sequence - Sound Layering

It was quite a complex process completing the sound layering of our film opening. We broke the genre conventions almost immediately by deciding to use two totally different songs in one short opening, although we felt that helped us to effectively convey the protagonist's reactions and emotions. There are also a variety of sound effects in our opening, including the noises of traffic and a gunshot. To compile this smoothly into one short opening was an interesting artistic process for the group.

This image shows the first song we used. We felt that, although it was non-diagetic, 'Stay Positive' by 'The Streets' definitely added a youthful, dark, urban approach to our opening, which is certainly an aspect we were looking for.

     

This image displays how we added specific sound effects such as traffic. This gave the product a much more realistic and dangerous feel to it, thus adding a large amount of suspense for the audience.

This image shows another sound effect being integrated,

this time the gunshot. It also shows the transition between

our two songs, as the second one; 'On the Nature of daylight',

shows a huge shift in emotion and mood, and it is the effect of 

the gunshot that helps to highlight this change.

After the sound FX and and music was finished on Imovie,

we transferred our product over to Final Cut Pro. This image

shows the piano sound used at the start of our piece with the

opening title credit that then fades into our first song 'Stay Positive'.

This is right at the end of our video, when 'On the Nature of Daylight' fades out and there is the sound effect of  a plane, which acts as a bridge into the last piece of sound which accompanies our final title credit. We constructed this ourselves, hence why it is 'This Bitter Earth (Remix)'.

This is VitrualDJ Home. This program was hugely integral in providing us with a platform to create out sound layering. It was used to smooth in sound effects such as the gun shot and the traffic noise, but really played its key part in remixing the last song that accompanies our end title credit 'The Hunted'. Things such as sound increase and different sound mixtures were used to create what we hoped to be a much more intense ending.