Sounds

Today, we were learning about sound in film, and how we can incorporate sounds into our own thriller pieces.

We were doing all of our tasks on the computers today. The first task was split into many smaller tasks on a James Bond: Quantum of Solace digital work guide. There were clips to watch of the sound technicians who had actually worked on the film, and they were explaining different aspects of the sounds used, such as the background music, and how you have to pay close attention to all of the sounds used, as our brain usually recognises these sounds and therefore blocks them out. They gave very helpful information.

There was also a task in which we were given photo stills from the movie, and had to insert the music that we think would suit the picture, such as trucks rolling, officers yelling, and birds chirping - as well as background music. There was also the option to change the volume of each of these noises, therefore allowing us to deem which was the most important, and, obviously, making that the loudest and therefore the most noticable noise.

The second task of the day was inserting music into our short clips that we made a couple of weeks ago (in my case, the card game which ends in a shooting). As we will have to create our own music pieces for our thriller films, it was good practice. Using a program called 'Soundtrack Pro', we first dragged our clips into it, and began to experiment putting different sound effects and pieces of music together, to see which fit, and helped create the tense/thrilling mood. I was pleased with how mine turned out, although I do feel it could have been a little better. Still, it was only a practice. I am more confident now with using sounds, and knowing what fits with the clips.