Sound

For our trailer we need sound to go with it. For example leaves crunching when people walk, heavy breathing and speaking. To do this the three of us stayed after school one night and did our first attempt of sound recording. The equipment we needed was the Boom, Deadcat and the camera. We had a few problems with the equipment as we had never used them before causing us to, at first, not gain any sound at all when we filmed. However after we sorted the equipment we were able to pick up sounds.

This was one of the first pieces we filmed as you can see we put the Deadcat quite close to her feet to gain the loudest noise we could. However we found out it does not sound as good as we first thought, and weirdly does not sound like a person walking through leaves.

Here I am trying to create the noise and wind blowing through the trees and hear the branches crash together. However again the Deadcat does not pick up the sound we wanted causing the sound we filmed to be unclear of what it is unless you were to watch the video along with it.

Here we did a small experiment. We heard a bird chirping in a tree close by to us and we thought it could be used in our trailer in the quiet parts to cause an eeriness where it was almost too quiet. However although on the clip it is easy to hear when we added it onto a piece of filming the sound did not come out due to it being too quiet. However when filming on a later date we are going to try and record it again but at a closer range.

This last sound clip is of all of us trying to re-create the sound of wind as when we filmed it was not windy at all but we wanted to have the sound in the background as in near all horror/thriller films when a character is outside at a key moment there is wind to hide the sound of the Abucter coming. However all of us blowing into the Deadcat did not work as you can easily hear us in between breaths.

Overall the sound that we captured will not be used in our trailer as they did not work. However by doing this we gained knowledge of what we sound not do. Instead next time we are going to try and make our own sounds such as crunching leaves with out hands to produce the sound of Lily walking.