Final Music Choices

FINAL MUSIC CHOSEN

POV MUSIC 1
We used this music because it sounds disorientating and also confusing because it doesn't have a set tune and therefore it is played in a confusing way. This was done through the music being reversed and then the pitch was slightly made higher and therefore that gave it is strange sound that doesn't sound normal. It fits in really well with the other under laid music that is also played along with the clip and therefore this means that it conforms with what we are trying to show. It is a really good piece of music which was created by Lily using audacity. It was good to reverse it because it distorts it easily and then this means that it doesn't become over edited. It is simplistic yet very effective in the opening scene.

This is the piece of music after we had edited it, it is very distorted, and the range in pitch and speed changes throughout.

The sound is reversed, to give it a sound which is different to what we would usually expect, adding tension to the opening.

The pitch was also altered slightly, to give it a sound that it far from normal.

THE CREDITS MUSIC
I made the bass a bit deeper in order to make it sound darker to the viewer. I feel as though this is a much better version of the one before because this time it conforms much more to what we have actually created within the clip that this piece of music will go with. I put it with a piece of rough earlier footage and then made it go faster and therefore this means that you can see it with a piece of video that will be the actual speed. When put over the top of the credits it really conformed with what was happening within the video and therefore was a really good piece of music in order to include as it was the perfect choice for our titles. 

MONTAGE SCENE
We wanted something creepy yet effective and therefore decided to search for a music box clip and then I found this one. We decided to listen to it as a group and then played it over the top and discovered that it fit perfectly with the scene even the beat sometimes matches the actions which are happening within the scene which looks really goof when it is watched back. This is the final piece of music that we chose because we wanted to get the montage scene right and when we found this piece of music we decided to download it straight away as it really fit with the scene in total. It was a really interesting piece of music and it was really good that we decided to use it because it conforms perfectly with the video piece.

STATIC NOISE
We wanted a simple White Noise effect for each piece of static that wasn't to loud and therefore wouldn't distract away from what was going on but would still create jump through it cutting to the static. Therefore we simply found a really simple piece of White Noise and then put it into the video and cut it down to each section so that it would fit.

ANOTHER PIECE OF POV MUSIC
This is the eerie piece of music which was overlaid with the top piece of music and a iMovie effect in order to create the entire music piece. I like how in the video the heavy breathing comes in just as you start to see the clown more prominently and as it starts to get closer to him. You can then tell that it is affecting him in someway although he cannot see it, it is still present near him and this piece of music shows this. Lauren found this piece of music and therefore it shows a group effort in finding the music. We overlaid this after we had found all the music and discovered it fitted completely and therefore we kept them together.

 For the breathing soundtrack, the speed had to be changed, as it was too fast paced, and ended too quickly, so we wanted it to slow down, to emphasis the tension within the scene.

 The decibel was also changed, as we wanted the sound to be more prominent and louder, as it sounded quite quiet compared to the other music that was paired with this.

Music Editing onto Film

Editing Music

Beginning

This is the beginning part of the music editing in which we have use my own piece of music which is a fast and bass drum which conforms with our opening scene which is also very fast paced. We wanted to keep the music more stark rather than really over layed and too disorientating. I had to drag the clip forward because the music started too late into the credits and therefore this meant that we had to adjust it slightly. I also faded out the end in order to make sure that it didn't fade over into the skyline shot.

POV Shot

With the POV shot we wanted to make the music eerie in order to conform with it being dark and also that the clown appears in random shots throughout. We therefore got the majority of the music from SoundCloud and then edited it on Audacity to speed up and also distort to make them uncomfortable for the viewer. We then over layed them together and discovered that they worked reall well, plus with the Drama Dark Suspense sound from iMovie then then added the small noises to it that were not avalible before. The breathing begins when he walks into the tunnel and therefore you can tell that as the clown gets closer to him it starts to affect him in a particular way and therefore conforms with what is happening even though he cannot see the clown. This therefore conforms with a supernatural genre as before the character comes into contact with the antagonist there is usually eerie or suspenseful music closely followed by the emphasised sound of them breathing over the top in order to show fear or anxiety.

Tunnel

For the CCTV shots we decided to use a more carnival type of music and therefore this means that the death is approaching and the clown is gradually getting closer to him. It also goes with his walking and when the clips cut it smoothly transitions back after static without being too mixed up. The music is interrupted by the sound of the white noise and also the static image which is sudden and breaks the scene up into different segments of filming and also music. We then layered a Heartbeat which came from iMovie and this therefore creates tension because if you can hear someones heartbeat it makes the viewers beat slightly faster making them feel anxious and also perhaps implying that something is going to occur soon. The heartbeat is also cut out by the static and therefore implies that the tape is changing from one to another.

Montage Scene

For the montage scene we decided to get our music from the internet and in particular music box music which is more high pitched and dream like rather than the others. We did think about possibly using a high pitched frequency but instead found that the music box was just as effective. The music fits really well with the film inlcuding when he looks from side to side and the music beats follow in time with it. The static in the beginning is longer and therefore this meant that it showed a change taking place and something bad is going to happen. The music for the montage scene was the most important as it is the most stand out scene and therefore the music had to show this as well rather than diverting on a differnt tangent which would have confused the viewer.

Ending

For the final scene we decided to cut out the music and leave it as just silence along with the interrupting parts of static which cut up the film. By having it as silence at the end it makes it much more sinister and conforms with the fact that he has just died because not only has the music gone but also the heart beat which therefore confirms that the protagonist is dead. I think that the scene works really well without any other sounds because this means that you solely focus on the scene and the fact that he has just been killed rather than over doing it with a lot of music. 

Chimes

In order to get the sound for the 3 clips I recorded one of my old Globes that play nursery rhymes when wound up and left to play. I recorded it on my phone and the quality came out really well and therefore I didn't need to re-record it again. I found that it was very creepy and also when edited it came out really well. I used the software called Audacity in order to change the effects on the music which is an online free piece of software. 

Backwards Melody

For the backwards melody I put the song into Audacity and the highlighted the entire piece of music and then picked a effect from the top tool bar that would put the song into reverse. I found the tool and then selected it before listening back to it. It turned out really well and the sound is really distorted without over editing it too much and losing the sounds quality and scariness. I therefore left it with just the reverse as the edit that I did to it and therefore this meant that the sound was constantly pulling itself backwards and it sounds really awkward to listen to back. 

Slow Melody

With the slow melody I chose the effect which changed the speed of the piece of music. I pulled the slider to the left and therefore this made the piece of music go much slower. I did like it however it lost the scariness through removing the fastness and therefore I wasn't so keen on how it sounded after listening to it. I didn't do anything else to it as I didn't want to carry on this piece of music as it is too slow for the opening in which we are doing. It also doesn't sound as menacing as the others and therefore I decided to leave it rather than make it even worse. 

Fast Melody

This is my favourite one because I really like how speeding up the clip has made it more mysterious and spooky rather than just a normal nursery rhyme which although is quite scary was fast paced enough for the opening which we are putting together. Therefore I really found that by just changing the speed alone made the music much more suitable for the opening and therefore made no other changes to it overall. I did try adding an echo but that made it too over crowded with noise and therefore abandoned that idea as it didn't work out. I also tried bass but as the pitch is too high this was pretty much useless and therefore left that idea. It is much more effective with the simple adding speed to it rather than over doing it with more effects than it actually needs. 

Music Part 2

Drums Music Part 2

In order to make the Drums better I decided to make the drums go a little bit faster in order to fit the pace of the video for the credits which is really quick and therefore so did the music that played over the top in the background. I also made the bass a bit deeper in order to make it sound darker to the viewer. I feel as though this is a much better version of the one before because this time it conforms much more to what we have actually created within the clip that this piece of music will go with. I put it with a piece of rough earlier footage and then made it go faster and therefore this means that you can see it with a piece of video that will be the actual speed. 

I changed the speed of the clip up to around a 100 and therefore this means that the piece of music will play a 100 times faster than it did before. I did try 120 however this distorted the music too much and made it sound silly in playback and therefore I tried a little lower and it sounded much better. In changing the speed it makes it sound much more effective when put with the clips and will work better with the piece of footage which it will be overlaid with making the entire credits look and sound good. 

In order to make the drum sound have more bass I changed the pitch of the music and made it of a lower pitch and therefore this made the sound much more deeper than before. I clicked on the bass to make it lower but did move any of the sliders as I didn't want the bass too low otherwise the sound wouldn't be recognisable and would merge into one long piece of bass music without the changing of the beat and tune. 

Flute Music Part 2

I decided to also change this one as I liked it however it didn't sound scary enough and therefore I decided that perhaps making it slower would change the effect that it had on the tune. However I really like the tune as it had that carnival effect of the different pitches and the disorientation that came with it that the flutes created. This meant that I didn't want to do a lot to it as I wanted to maintain the effect which I had but make it more scary for the viewer and fit in with part of the clip later on. I also altered the video that was overlaid with it by making it much slower and therefore this meant that the tune fits in with what could be on in the background however the clip may be a little bit faster. 

This is the only effect which I changed with this one because I thought that it would just need to go slower rather than making it too overcomplicated and therefore I just made it slightly slower than taking it to an extreme. I also tried a fade in however that didn't enhance it and therefore I decided to remove it in order to make it better. Overall I feel that by adding this effect it has made the piece of music better because it sounds more haunting and scary rather than being a strange tune put over the top of a video which didn't initially fit it. 

I didn't do anything thing to the third tune as I didn't like it at all and found it annoying and therefore I decided not to develop that any further because it wasn't going to be used.

Home Made Music

 Music Clip 1

For this piece of music which I created I found a  beat on Garage band which had a flute. I was trying to find a Sound which sounded creepy and the flute sounded like the best option. It was in a Latin tune and therefore I needed to edit it in order to make it sound sinister and scary for out film opening. This is my favourite tune that I made because I think that it conforms the most with the  video which we are doing as it sounds carnival like and also quite scary as it isn't something which we would like listening to. 

The piece of music. 

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For the compressor I decided to change the Ratio and the Attack and this therefore made the tune a little bit slower and also that I wouldn't be as attacking as it was before and therefore this took off the screech that it had after the effects had been added therefore make it less high pitch on the viewers ears. 

This is the master echo and Reverb and this gives you the chance to change the echoing of the instrument which I altered slightly in order to make sure that the flute had some echo and turned the reverb right up so that it had a twang to it when it echoed. 

This reduces high frequencies however I wanted certain parts on a higher frequency than other but I didn't want the frequency to be extremely high and therefore I turned it down a bit. This meant that it on the really high pitches of the flute it is quite high but on the lower notes its ok. The higher pitch is meant to make it feel awkward for the viewer to listen to. 

This is the first of the two phasers which I applied and with this one I turned up the intensity so that the phaser could be heard quite clearly but without being too intense. I slowed down the speed completely so that it was slow however this gave it a poor feedback and therefore made it less effective in the long run. Then the feedback was high and this gave it the sort of guitar type sound and therefore completely changed the sound of the instrument. 

This is the second phaser which I added and this time I made the Intensity and the Speed the highest it could possibly be and this would counter act the other one how the feedback was low and therefore it wasn't as prominent as the other one however it did have an effect and the two phasers worked really well together in this piece of music to shape the instrument into something with a much different sound which makes it more scary and sinister. 

I turned the bass really far down and therefore it was a more authentic sound and therefore this meant that the sound wasn't swallowed by the bass at all because it wasn't there and therefore it was just the sound playing as this piece of
sound didn't need the bass other wise it wouldn't work as well with the emotion it is trying to get across. 

 Music Clip 2

For this piece of music I used a drum instead of a scarier instrument. With this one I decided to make a heart beat type of beat that would go along with an intense scene or something like that and therefore I wanted to create something with bass and a deep sound to it in order to mirror that of a heart beat and also what I have heard in films before. I really like this one as I do feel it does sound like a heart beat however it might need a little bit more editing done to it in order to make it fully effective.  

This is the piece of music. 

This is the bass amp and I used this is order to make the bass behind the beat that plays. By adding a bass too it I created more depth to the sound and therefore making it sound a little bit more like a heart beat rather than a flatter beat which might not have been so effective in creating something near to a beat. I decided to turn up all the different dials but not the High one because otherwise the beat because more high pitched and unbearable. 

For the Master echo and reverb I decided not to put any echo onto this one because when I did it didn't sound very good and it distorted it too much.  

I turned down the attack completely but I did turn up the threshold and also the gain which made it more prominent but without it becoming too high pitched and therefore decided not too turn everything up because you completely lost the beat and it became a long screeching beat. 

I added no Visual EQ to this music clip.  

In order to take away the screech from the beat I decided to turn down the Treble Reduction and therefore this meant that the frequency wasn't as high and therefore the notes where slightly flatter but with more bass behind them. 

Music Clip 3

Again I wanted to create a piece of music which wasn't normal and therefore needed a lot of distortion in order to make it more psychological rather than the drum beat before. I chose trombones this time as again I thought that they were more scarier than the other instruments that Garage Band had on offer. I like this one but at the same time I don't because there is something about the sound which puts me off it and therefore it needs more work if its going to be used in the future. 

This is the piece of Music. 

With the compressor this time only the ratio is turned completely down low whereas the others are scattered because if the threshold was turned up to high then the sound started to screech and also the attack needed to be turned down because it wasn't as effective with it turned up higher. The Gain is just off centre and therefore this means that it has hardly been touched however it is a little low. 

I added a distortion to this piece of music and for this distortion I decided that it would be of a brighter and more happy tone because then it would subvert what was happening on the screen and create a contrast. I turned up the drive slightly to make it go a little bit faster but kept the output level low because otherwise it would be extremely loud. 

The Flanger is another form of a distortion and for this one the only one I drastically changed was the intensity and I think it would be this effect that I would need to re-think if we wanted to use it in the future however it may not need to be changed at all.  

Again I used the phaser for extra distortion and therefore this time I turned down the Intensity and the Speed but made the Feedback higher and therefore this means that the viewer could hear it.  

I added no echo to this track however I did turn up the reverb slightly. 

I added no Visual EQ to this track.  

Carnival Music

This is the typical scary carnival music which has a slight twist. This would be a really good option for us because it conforms with the genre of our film opening and there is also a clown in it which also relates to the music which is playing. By having music which fits in with the film opening helps to add effect to what is happening in the scene and therefore this shows they have relation and its not just a random piece of music. With it being distorted it helps in order add to the effect that the clown isn't normal and that something is affecting the music, just like how the clown is affecting the scene itself through changing it from black and white to colour through its actions. I really like this piece of music and the other good thing about it is that it isn't copyrighted and therefore if we email the poeple who made the piece of music then they should allow us to use it if we credit them and therefore it is easy to access. If we cannot let them to let us use it then we should be able to create something similar by using a app on the map and therefore the music will be created by us which would be good.

This piece of music has been created in order to create a suspenseful atmosphere and this would be good to include in the final scene where the clown appears in the screen creating a jump factor for the viewer. The music is of a high pitch and therefore is quite awkward for the viewer to listen to because it isn't something that is usually nice and therefore this would be really good as it would make the viewer uncomfortable and the jump more effective. I also like how it fades in each time it gets more and more intense and therefore this means that if we wanted to use another bit earlier in the scene then we could as each bit it steps up a bar and therefore this means that if the opening gets more intense then we can add the next piece of music. It wouldn't be to hard in order to make but it isn't copyrighted and therefore this means that we could use it if we asked the owner and then credited them in the film. This is good as it saves time however if we want to make bits different then we will have to do this ourselves. 

This is the final part of music which I found which is of a ring tone and this is used in order to scare people as it isn't a pleasant ring tone and therefore may be used in order to mean something. This is shown in the film One Missed Call which when the phone rings with a particular ring tone means that, that person is going to die. We wont use it for a phone however it would be quite effective if overlaid on top of another piece of music where we could make a compilation of different stuff and then put it together in order to create one piece of effective music and therefore be more tension rising. Again the music is not copyrighted and therefore if we did want to use it then we would have to ask the owners permission in order use it.

Music

The music choice for the first part of our storyboard is incredibly important. It has to be appropriate and it has to suit our protagonist. To make the choice even more difficult, the song cannot be copyrighted. 

These are some possible songs;

This particular song is probably my favourite out of all of the options. I like the way that the notes seem quite 'off' and out of tune because this would help to make the scene more eerie, especially as it will be shot in the dark. 

Also, I think that even the few words in the song are particularly interesting. 'You blew it' makes it seem as if there has been trouble.

I tried to find a variety of songs that would suit both the location and the protagonist. Some of the songs above are quite urban, whereas others would just suit the story line better due to the notes used within the songs.