editing sound

For the opening section of the film, we chose to use "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers because we wanted an old song from the 70s to show the audience that we are going to be showing an old person from that era, and that we're going to show a scene from that time as well, which is the flashback. It is also a calm song, which will convey to the audience that what they're watching at that time is calm. This will contrast to the second soundtrack we use, which will be dramatic and tense, and the audience will be able to differentiate between the two so their emotions will change.

Obviously we can't use the original version as that is copyright, so we found a cover version on YouTube which is copyright free.

For the rest of the sounds, we are looking on freesound.org to find a dramatic suspense non-diegetic underscore to go over the flashback scene, to create a negative feeling for the audience. We're also trying to find a heartbeat effect to show the audience that the character is nervous.

We both decided to record our own commentary over the flashback to show that this was a professional competition and therefore a big deal to the character, therefore creating more drama. We recorded our voices on a programme called audacity, with Alexs Blue Snowball microphone which he brought from home.