Progress Update

26/04/2012
In today's lesson, we continued to edit our film - which was very nearly complete. After we realised the music was too tense for the start of the film, I looked to find a piece of music that held an ominous quality but wasn't as dramatic as our current soundtrack. I managed to find a piece called 'Quaker Underscore' - again I made sure it was un-copyrighted - which was exactly what I was looking for. The piece used repeated motifs to build tension and so held an underlying, ominous tone - which would reflect what was happening in the film as the student suspects there is something but is not entirely sure what. However, in contrast to 'The Ruler' (our existing soundtrack), it didn't climax and so wasn't as dramatic. 'Quaker Underscore' was mainly composed of electronic samples  - which reflected the technological aspect of our film.

So, after finding this piece of music, I set about putting it into our film. I was also able to overlap the end of 'Quaker' with the start of 'The Ruler', which created a smooth transition between tracks and, hence, was able to build the tension more greatly in the second half of the film. This was followed by 'ducking' certain parts of the track so that dialogue could be heard. And that concluded our film which was complete. We plan to use tomorrow's lesson to go over it, finely tune it, and make the transitions as smooth as possible.