Sound

Soundscape- collection of variety of sounds which come together to form a layer of sound

E.g. 

- Foley Sounds (pre-recorded)

-Voiceover music

First we watch a one minute clip of the opening to Submarine(2010) without any sound.Then we discussed how watching with no sound effects our viewing of the clip.Some of the things which we said was it lacked emotion and it didn't capture our attention.Then we were introduced to the website Creative Commons, which is a website where you can search for Copyright free music on a variety of websites(soundcloud and jamedo). After that we were given the task to watch the Submarine opening clip again within our groups and look on creative commons for music which we thought would fit the mood of the submarine clip.It is important to use copyright free sound, because if you do not have rights to the sounds which you are using you could be sued for breach of copy rights.Copy righted sounds require users to pay royalty fees ranging from £50+,which is often not available small level production.

Creative commons allow people to search for copyright free sounds, by doing the following the following process.

First you type in the type of sounds you are looking for and click which website you would like it to search from.

We used soundcloud and searched through clips under the search 'Airy'

When we came across clip we thought was the most fitting we clicked the download button below the sound

Then we converted the file into one which we would be able to use within final cut pro.

Once in final cut pro we edited the clips to the video and added effects such as fades.

Effect of our sound scape

Once we added the sounds to our clip, it made me want to watch it because the initial sounds are  really captivating.Even the text which comes upon the screen revealing the different companies involved in the film production have music to accompany them;which could make them more intrigued to read.Within our clip we also included some foley sounds(rain drops),these come in at the right moment when the boy is looking out of the gloomy window.The solemn sound of the piano playing also gives the last shots of the gloomy town more emotion because it looks like a slow and dreary place.Our choice to have very airy sounds was also due to our perception of not much going on within the first minute of the sequence, so we decided our sound should be very minimal.If we had more time then we would have chopped the sounds more, so we didn't have sounds whilst the list of companies involved in the film were shown.When the text flashes between the shots of the bedroom we could have different sounds in between.