Solidified Audio

    In my original post, I mentioned the use of music and how it would help fill the silence, but we were still undecided on the idea of incorporating it at all. After consulting our teacher, she made us realize quickly that our film, since the credit sequence forms a great part of it, would just be silenced. So, I suggested adding music only to the detective board segment but that would also look silly, and then I proposed maybe playing a song the whole film and just lowering the volume on the areas where there are specific noises we want our audiences to hear. That was also quickly shut down, which is when we landed on just having the track play the entire time in low-ish volume as to not take away from the actual film.

   

     For the majority of the opening, we are going to have this music, and as we reach the end of the credit sequence and progress to the film itself, we will have the music fade out, to signal the end of the opening and that the actual film would be starting. This is also so that we can really emphasize all the sounds going into our soundscape for this project.

   As soon as we landed on how much music we were going to use, it came time for us to search for the music itself. We knew it could not have lyrics since it would take away from our film, so we started looking at instrumental songs. But with this came the challenge of finding one that had a suspenseful feel and a buildup which could be used to represent the paranormal element, our monster.

    Our first idea was to look for non-copy right classical music but none of them were serious enough and felt too formal. Eventually, we turned to Spotify for help and literally looked up suspenseful copy right free music, but none of those songs worked either and really had none of the characteristics we were looking for in our song. 

    After giving up on those we looked at the YouTube Audio Library, since we remembered it had been highly recommended. Much to our surprise, they had tons of good options, and we are certainly debating using one of these audios.

    As far as a final verdict, we are still pondering between these options and hope to have a clearer idea once we have finished filming the visual part and just seeing which one matches the mood better.