SOUND IDEAS!!!

Good morning!!! I'm editing sound and doing some changes with the videos, such as using zooming, slow-motion, cutting some shots, erasing others, etc. I'm loving how while editing the sound I am noticing what things I am doing right and the one that not that much. I can see easier the things that I am missing and the extra ones as I can a see a fuller picture of the whole opening. 

I remembered that my teacher said that we are allowed to use other audios as long as we site them. So I started researching for some background music to put in the part where the text of the bible appears with the fire match while thinking about my last research where the music was like a soft continues violin mixed with other instrument. While I was searching, I decided to take screenshots of the audios that I was downloading, to use them as I needed to site the page of where I was taking the sound out of and I knew I was snot going to remember. After along search of finding the perfect audio for that part, looking through piano, violin, country music, outdoor space, wind, and many other sounds, I decided to move on as I knew I was taking way too much time on this and I still needed to find the synchronous sounds. Of course you should carefully consider the sound, but making sure that you are balancing your time is important, too. I went through different free sound platforms such as Mixkit, Freesound, and Pixabay. The one that I liked the most was totally mixkit, but they all helped me find sounds that I needed. Yet it was easier for me to download and edit the ones that I took out of this platform. 

I was also considering using my own sounds and film it with Voice Memos, because I usually record some of my free time songs there and it helps me a lot to erase background sounds, skip silence, and make the slower or faster. I'm thinking of just recording the sound of the shoes running on the grass and on the cement by grabbing sport shoes and hitting them in the ground as if my hands where running with shoes on them. I still found a sound that matches with the ones from the video, but while I was editing I saw it more harder to match with the actual action, so I might just put my phone on the ground next to my hand with the shoe, while the video is playing for me too coordinate in that scene and make the action exactly when it is happening. This would be way easier and better.

While I was searching for background music, I also found a wind sound and that made me remember of my very first shot where I was thinking of adding the sound of a fire match lighting on. I found a perfect one in pixabay.com this gave a great introduction to my scene as I coordinated it with the sound of passing the match through the striking surface and then a soft blow as the fire in the match is moving on slow motion. The sound foreshadows the lighting of the match to later compare the fire with destruction to show a little bit of the genre of my film. 

Later as I was watching some opening from films mentioned in my last posts, an idea popped in my head. Heart beat sounds while he is running! It is perfect as it implies that he is getting tired but not just because he is running but his heart is driving him to act a certain way and do something that is making him scared. This also alerts my audience and puts tension into it. The heart beat would start softly then slowly higher and this would be compared with the action of him running and then going slower coming to a stop. This is to convey the idea that sometimes what he is showing and thinking might not be the truth in his heart and he is pushed to act in unexpected ways. This also shows that he is not normal and sometime his thought and feelings are opposite to any human left in the world. 

While I was re-watching the introduction of the film Divergent (2014) as I remembered that I was thinking of using a voiceover of my brother talking and explaining a little about what he thinks his purpose and thoughts are. In this film mentioned, the first word's start as "We are lucky to be in the city" which bring some context, environment, and emotions, as it shows how she is grateful even with the harsh events the main character is going through. I feel like my main character should start the opposite way and then show his gratefulness with God to convey his hate to humanity. I had several ideas like this while I was listening to the introduction so I decided to do a script and put in parenthesis the reasons of why I decided it to be this way. I am thinking of telling my brother for this to be the last thing to record as I noticed that his scenes running might need to be longer so I we might film more of those. Just that for that we would need to schedule a time again and that is a little complicated. Yet, I am always trying my best. So coming back to the topic, for the voice-over to fit into my opening, I would need to have everything done. But at least I already have the context planned and written all out. I'm looking forward to show you my script on my next post, where I will be analyzing and explaining it. So hope you give yourself some time to check it out!