SoundtrackThe most important element of sound we had to focus on for the making of our final production was the soundtrack. We discussed as a group what points of our short film needed music and what we wanted the music to sound like. We mind mapped various ideas that we all came up with in order to help us create suitable music. From this we then gathered a good idea as to what sounds we wanted to include to compile our soundtrack. We went on GarageBand and familiarised ourself with the programme in order to use it as efficiently as possible. By spending time on this we managed to create a list of potential sounds to include in our soundtrack. We explored all the different sounds focusing mainly on the 'dark;, 'distorted' and 'piano' sounds as they were most fitting to what we wanted. Sound Effects- laughterOnce we had the soundtrack sorted, our next main focus was the sound effects we would be using in our film, paying most attention to the sound of laughter coming from Mercy the doll. The sound of her laughter is going to be a key element of the film adding to the fear factor and mysteriousness of our film overall contributing to the horror genre. The sound of a child's laughter becomes scary simply based on the context. When something as innocent as a baby's laugh is played in an unnatural setting it instantly becomes scary. I researched conventional sound effects of children's laughter typically found in films as well as children's laughter found in famous horror films. This gave us an idea of how effective the sound would be and where we wanted to include the sound effect in our film to be as effective as possible. After my research we then went back to Garageband and discovered the ' small child giggle' sound effect which we then edited to make it slower and higher pitched to make it as scary as possible. Sound Effects- VoicemailAnother key aspect of sound within our short film is the voicemail played at the beuinning of the film, triggering the rest of the narrative. The voicemail is from the mother who is an old woman. This meant we had to find a voice which would fit accordingly to the character. We tried and tested several people to see which would fit best. To decide we got audience feedback and asked our peers and teachers which voice they felt appropriate.
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