Sound Track Edit

Currently the development of our editing of Four Walls is taking place, it is equally as important to concentrate on the sound of the music- so that the outcome of the final version of our Title Sequence will be effective. We are obviously aware that we had to make our own soundtrack- for copyright reasons but additionally, to make sound fully fit in with our title sequence.

We split up to devise a plan to make it more organised and focused- Czarina and Dennetta is in charge of the editing/livetype, Thao had helped giving feedback in both separate editing groups and myself (Kim) had put together the sequence of our soundtrack.

Thao and I at first familiarized with the Soundtrack Pro and selected appropriate 'Suspenseful' music and sounds that could combine to make a effective soundtrack. Our group is inspired by 'Se7en'; the visual effects and the upbeat music which is the effect we wanted to achieve.

Here is the first attempt that I made in making the soundtrack.

This second attempt had aspects from the first but I had adjusted it to make it sound different.

Here is screengrabs of the development of the music- we had to select the sounds we thought sounded effective- and try piece together a piece of music that sounded effective, scary but upbeat to keep up with the idea of our snappy cut shots.

The piece of music only lasted 20 seconds- the rest of the sound bars on the right hand side are sounds we selected that could achieve the effect we want, which may come to use later on.

ORIGINAL FIRST DRAFT:

Here is the first attempt in making the music- obviously it is not the best and there is always room for improvement.

We got back feedback in which most people found it to give off a "Sci-Fi" effect- but our initial idea was to make the music sound somewhat similar to the soundtrack in 'Se7en' in which our group is inspired by that title sequence.

SECOND DEVELOPED VERSION:

This screengrab is the development of the second idea- an improved, different version of the first draft. In addition, this version also paid special attention to the editing of the different shots and film cuts that we did. By watching the edited sequence of the Four Walls, we are able to take different points in the edited shots/film cuts and add sound effects to emphasize the intention we are trying to give out; e.g. The clip where there is a quick cut shots of 3 photographs in a consecutive follow up after another- here we added 3 heart beat sounds to combine with the edited sequence which was in sync.

Here we also had to fairly find a different upbeat kind of music but still took some aspects of the original soundtrack and embedded it into the new one to meet the "eerie" effect we wanted to achieve.

These are some of the compositions and the developments that I have created so far.

My group had found this second version much more better than my first attempt- so in result of that I will carry on improving this with the help of feedback from Thao and gain feedback from other people too.