Music and Dialogue

Music is very important in a thriller, and in ours we felt that it was vital for it to be perfect. We struggled a lot with getting it exactly right as for some reason, GarageBand wouldn't save the file in the way that we needed, and we ended up re-doing the music on many occasions, which was a cause of concern as we didn't want to risk not finishing our film on time. However, once we had mastered how to fix the problem, we decided on two specific Apple loops to use, which made our issues much lighter as they were not downloaded from the Internet so there was no risk of copyright infringement or not being able to access the sound on other computers (only on Macs, or only on PC for example.)

After the majority of the editing was coming to an end, Matt and I were beginning to become concerned that the music wasn't going to work properly. We really felt that music, although minimal, was very important as we wanted to build tension in more ways than one. Eventually we managed to fix the music issue, and we put an eerie high pitched sound, mixed with an acoustic piano loop over the middle section of our film. We had three attempts, as with the first two, the high pitched sound had way too high a frequency and was painful to listen to, therefore we had to ensure that the sound on that area of GarageBand was turned down. After this, we ended up with the perfect music.

Following our music creation, we had to consider dialogue. As Amy wouldn't be working with a script, we had to rely on her more, which was fine as she has prior acting experience. As we filmed her, we wanted her to express pain in her voice and facial expression, which she did perfectly, enabling our editing process to be easier.