Film Sounds

Film Sounds

    When it came to sounds, we already had a pretty basic idea of what we would do to further improve our film. Sound is a much more important feature than many think, especially when it comes to our action/adventure film, where sounds can make or break a scene. For our film, we want to further express the mystery and action as much as possible, and try to use sound to make the antagonist much more intimidating. We will do this by adding in background ambiance to fit a dark and dim setting, maybe creaking floorboards, heavy breathing, or slight gusts of wind could add a little intimidation factor to our scenes. While the ambiance may be important, these will only be subtle additions, as we don't want them to distract the viewer, and only want to add to their viewing experience.

    For a much more noticeable and important effect, we will add weather to the background, like rain and thunder. Much of our scenes will be indoors, which can be great for weather sounds, like rain hitting the sides of a window, thunder rumbling the skies, or lightning crackling down. There will be no visuals for these sounds, so we can pretty much add any extreme weather effects that we feel will fit the scenes. Again, we don't want to distract the viewer from the actual scenes, but adding these subtle effects of rain and thunder can help tremendously in achieving a much more mysterious undertone.

     For voice audio, we plan on using the microphone on our cameras/phones, as we don't see a need for an upgrade. While this is just an assumption, it won't be necessary to upgrade equipment, as most scenes will be very close shots of the speaker, where we should be able to hear them very easily. Just in case of emergency, we do have backup microphones and spare equipment on standby, but in the meantime, there is just no need to use them.