Sound/Voice overs

In our opening sequence, we decided to use a mixture of both diegetic and non diegetic sounds. We decided to use a piece of music called Spooky which we found on a website called 'Free Sounds'. We searched horror music and listened to possible pieces of music that we felt would suit the type of film that we were creating and that would make sense if it were to be used within our film. The reason we chose to use 'Spooky' above all of the other pieces of music that we found was because, the underlying tone to the piece was very minor with a few major keys included which we felt would work well when our sequence would reach its climax. The piece was continuous so made sense all the way through and even if we were to cut the piece to add another sound in, it would continue from where we cropped it and it would still made sense. We decided to have this music playing throughout the sequence as we felt it would build tension and keep the audience interested in what would happen next as the music began to build.

We decided to add in effects such as a chair squeak, heart beats and loud bangs, which also were accessible from 'Free Sounds', we used these effects in areas of our opening sequence that we felt either needed an added extra sound to dramatise the diegetic sounds that were already there, or just to intensify a scene in the film to make it more dramatic.

Non diegetic voiceovers were used twice in the editing our film, once because a scene that we had where by the character of Katie said a monologue, turned out to be slightly muffled and the sound of her voice had been quietened due to the weather conditions surrounding her such as wind. Yet due to her own commitments for her own film, it made it difficult to use the same voice but that would not put us behind schedule, so therefore we decided upon using Becky's voice for this particular section as her voice sounded slightly similar to that of Ellie's, but also it meant that we would save some time. We used a second non diegetic voice over of Harri Long's voice saying Katie as she ran away from the graveyard; we did this because we felt that it made that particular scene more dramatic and built suspense as it led to the next scene. We also added in a pre-recorded monologue of when Katie is speaking to the ghost of Thomas, we pre recorded this of Ellie's voice when filming our sequence, we added in the voice during editing to ensure that what she was saying could be heard loudly and clearly.