Editing process 3- 20/12/12

In today's editing process we wanted to add the final touches and add the music and audio affects that we needed to. This is what we have completed in today's lesson:

AIM- Add the music and audio effects effectively 

• Watched through the video and fix any errors
• Download potential music that we intend to use
• Use the music software called 'garageband' to edit the music
• Add in sound effects into the film opening at suitable times
• Add suitable music transitions 

In today's lesson our main aim was to ensure that we had completed the music and sound affects as we wanted to make sure that we used the most appropriate and suitable music in our film opening. Firstly we looked on YouTube for some music that we can use in the background. We search the tags 'eerie music' as this is what our audiences have stated what type of music they expect to see. After picking out the most suitable instrumentals we added them to garageband and lowered the pitch/speed in order to make it more appropriate for the clips that we wanted to use them for. Once we have placed our music onto the final cut software we then had to use suitable audio transitions/filters to fade the music in well and stop it abruptly playing out aloud. I think that we done this well and I am proud of how effective me and my partner completed them. 

We also added in some sound effects into our film opening. Basic sound effects that we had to adapt to our opening included simple things such as the phone noise which we had to film again via a microphone as this was too quiet to be heard in the original audio clip. Furthermore, we also used the sound effect of a door slamming as this was used dubbed out due to the sped up clip. We did this by filming my partner shutting another door via a site on the macs and then adding the audio clip to the door shutting when Lily is leaving the house. So far this has been a really good task completed and have enjoyed this very much.