The Art of Sound

Good morning!

After reflecting back on the filming that Andrew and I completed, I realized that I definitely need to do more research on sound, especially because it is such an important element to my genre choice and film opening. The sound choice must match what is conveyed in the film to emphasize the spooky and mysterious vibe that we're looking for. Besides the non-diagetic sound that will be playing in the background of our film to add fluency to our story line, we also need to create diagetic sounds that pair with our actions. For example, for a portion of our film when the protagonist screams, we will import a diagetic sound of the scream to match what is occurring. We realized that layering a sound memo of the scream onto the action would sound better than actually screaming into the camera while acting, because there are noises in the background such as birds chirping. From personal experience with sound editing, I have realized that making noises into a microphone on a voice memo will come out a lot clearer than the on-camera microphone would. We may also experiment with foley sounds to create sounds for actions such as footsteps.

This is the microphone that we will be using for the sounds we create. 

In addition, the sounds that we plan on layering over our film opening are key to have because it is what truly makes the film spooky. For example, in the movie Psycho (1960), the shower scene would not be nearly as scary if there weren't scores and diagetic/non-diagetic sounds playing during the scene. The sound elements in the shower scene are a huge reason why the scene is iconic.

For now, we will be focusing more on completing all of our filming. Next week will be dedicated to finding the best sound elements and editing our film.