My part on the film studies coursework was to sort out the sound for our film and to create main soundtrack that would run throughout the film. My initial idea for sound was to use mainly beats and to get a thrilling feeling out of the music and to tell the people more about the story.
The sound I used was mainly small pieces of instrumental music and beats, not so much music as much as just pieces of sound. I also used some diegetic sound in the beginning using a dog barking and a car alarms well as traffic sounds, these sounds were used to give the idea of rural, bad environment where like thugs and yobs live, so the sound gives the idea of a bad environment.
This is an screen shot of the soundtrack along with a few of the diegetic sounds.
When it came to choosing the song "Lupe fiasco, Superstar" it was more of a group decision than my own when it came up as an idea it was more of just testing it out first but then it worked really well so we decided to put it in as we thought it was with our plot quite ironic so we thought it would work well.
When i was looking for sound I had a few ideas in mind that i as thinking about. These ideas were more like inspirations from films than original ideas though. The few films I had seen that had struck for there use of music was "The Hills Have Eyes(2005)", "Cape Fear(1991)" and "Halloween(2007)". I think the use of music in both "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Halloween" is really good as they both create incredible tension in the film and the music is only played were the villain/villains are around somewhere so its a fact of we know there around but the other characters don't so it creates incredible tension and suspense for the films. "Cape Fear" works in a similar way but it uses loud beats and crescendos to create tension and suspense and the music in the film is incredibly thrilling and is also only played when the villain is around or when something has happened or is about to happen so it creates great suspense ion that moment.
To create the soundtrack I used a software called Garageband which has quite a wide variety of both sounds and music. It took quite a while as i struggled to find the perfect music and my inspirations were too hard to try and recreate it with some originality in it so I had to come up with a completely new idea for the soundtrack so I took a lot longer with it than I had imagined.
We then had a visitor called Jake Wynne, he is a short film director and editor, he came in and watched all of our films as they were at that time. He gave us some advice on what we should take out of our film to improve or what is good that we have done so he gave us feedback on what he thought. When he checked our film the sound as far from completion and I was testing how "Lupe Fiasco" sounded all the way through the film he encouraged us not to do that s he said it did not go all with our film so i changed that immediately after and continued with the soundtrack as he said it was good but there wasn't enough sound with it. He said that in our film me and James didn't seem threatening to him so i had to create a good to play during our scenes so that music helps to make you think that they are threatening and they are dangerous.
I was advised many times throughout the making of my soundtrack to take care with the sound because will not make sense without a good soundtrack because the sound had to be used to tell the story and tell the characters apart and to show that the yobs aren't nice people. So taking that into consideration I made the soundtrack but i split it into to halves, the first half was used just as a background noise while Nathan was walking, the second half is made to be threatening because this sound starts to come in as soon as the yobs start following Nathan so that the sound stimulates the film into a more fast paced scene that has some threat all made by the sound.
Our film has turned out really well as well as the soundtrack which i am really proud of. We had some peers watch our film and we got some comments from them so if we were to make a film like this again and make the soundtrack again I may consider changing things like the how repetitive the sound is and the diegetic sounds, think clearly about whether some of them are really that necessary.
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