This is a slideshare of our different tracker images that were used, there are printscreens included showing what we used in our opening sequence. We also included a slide on titles and fonts and which fonts we decided to use and the reason for choosing this. We also included a slide of the costume that we used and the reason for using this costume.
This voiceover was used in our opening sequence, we uploaded this video using vimeo as it is an easy accessible site and we wanted to try and use different media techniques.
This is the first half of our music where you can hear eerie music which moves at a slow pace. We used audacity to slow down, echo and change the pitch and tempo of a musicbox and string section. We again used the software of audacity as we find that it is effective at changing how something sounds to how you want it. We have also added a ringing phone to let the audience know from the beginning that there are going to be suspicious phone calls through the movie.
Music for the second half
To make our film opening as unique as possible we created our own eerie music, in the beginning of this clip you will hear the music first being played on the piano; however, the second part allows you to hear what the music sounds like after the music had been edited with addition of pace, pitch and tempo. We did all of this using the software Audacity.
We used these options to create the sound which was perfect for us and then exported the file as an MP3 so that we could use it added with sound effects.
Together with the heartbeat sound we believe that when Briony is running down the stais it adds an essence of tension and makes the audience wonder what will happen next as the heart beat begins to get faster and she begins to run further away which is effective because we want our audience to be intrigued and for our music to play such a big role in this is quite good.
As you can hear the tension builds up throughout the song and does entice the listener as it captures the suspense and the sound of the heart beat gives the impression that this person is just focusing on getting away and the rest of the world feels like nothing compared to how she feels at that point when she is running away.
Final Piece of Music
As you can see this piece was also made using Audacity and it has a variety of sounds put into it just to make the finish seem explosive and intriguing for the rest of the movie.
These are our two rough cuts (made using Adobe Premier Pro) for our opening sequence. We have two rough cuts because we kept asking for feedback every time we made changes. In this rough cut we showed 16-18 year old because they are our target audience the feedback we received was that we should add some music in the beginning. We thought this was important so we looked at some thriller openings and knew the typical music used therefore, experimented with what we could use. We went to the music department and asked them what instruments could make spooky, thrilling music and they let us experiment with the instruments then we used audacity to edit the music. We also learnt that the font we used for our thriller was more of a horror font so we changed it from 'Chiller' to 'Courier New Moreover, we were 43 seconds over so we knew we had to cut something out in order to get it to two minutes. We added all these changes into our second rough cut.
We filmed the opening from backwards, meaning we began with editing the second half first. We finished editing the second half first. In the editing process we uploaded all the videos, cut all the parts which were not needed, added the titles onto the actual video and added the music and sound files which we needed to create tension and to try and begin telling the story of our movie. We had to make a fast cutting rate to make sure there was tension and to make a scene obscurer plus it can be effective in making the audience want to see more.
