SOUND EDITING & RESEARCH - POST PRODUCTION

Today me and Hannah have been researching sound on the internet trying to find some music for our film. We have found a few royalty free music sites and have been looking through their music and will continue to do some tomorrow. We have found a few songs which have an upbeat rhythm of a guitar in but then have people singing in different languages on but these songs could add another dimension to our film and make it quite quirky.We also need to add in our diegtic sound like the train announcements later on so that the audience can hear the announcement clearly. 




Me and Hannah have now finished editing our film and have added the final touches like titles and sound and have now exported the finished movie. We had a problem with the soundtrack and that was trying to find a soundtrack that reflected the mood of our film as we wanted an upbeat rhythm of a song but to have a slight comidic tone to it to enhance our comedy in our film as well as a slight romantic touch to it to hint tot the audience that perhaps that is where the film could lead both the characters.


For our main soundtrack (that has the comidic tone added to it) and is used at the beginning and middle of our film. We found the website www.incompetech.com which allowed us to browse lots of royalty free soundtracks which we were allowed to use as these pieces are donated to the website for people to use without any copyright issues.

www.Incompetech.com where we found one of our soundtrack pieces

Our soundtrack piece on the site


When searching through the tags and genres of music, hannah found a piece of music which we thought fitted perfectly. The name of the piece is "Brightly Fancy" and we felt it had a real upbeat rhythm to it while also have a slight hint of comedy to it. One issue with it though was that it was only 2:15 long. We resolved this problem though as we only used the soundtrack in the parts where they weren't talking and so we were able to use it all without it cutting out in the middle as we only used it for 2 reliatively short sections.






We also wanted a romantic soundtrack at the end of our film which was to then having the sound of a record abruptly stopping to add more comedy to the film and enhance the comedy of the moment even more in the sound. We used a different website for this piece called www.jamendo.com:

 We found a soundtrack called "There is Romance" which is a very typical romantic cliche song and we wanted it to be cliche to add more comedy to the situation. The added sound of the soundtrack aburptly scratching to a stop also added even more of a sesne of comedy.