Draft 3 (Edit includes music and foley sounds)

This is my draft 3. In this draft I have added improvements and started to add sound tracks and foley sounds to make my thriller more interesting and professional. The sounds have helped to make my thriller stimulating,suspenseful and intriguing which then interns engages the audience.

This is the feedback we were given to improve our thriller in the next draft.

Our final targets:

  • Make Aidans breathing more prominent so it looks like he is struggling with the bag.
  • Add more dramatic music into the background for the non diegetic.
  • Have the main title shown in a more thrilling way which builds up the tension more.
  • Differ the change in volume and tempo.
  • Add more Foley sounds.
  • Have noticeable sounds when important moments happen in the sequence.

 

Sound Production and Editing

Here are some photos I have taken to create some non diegetic foley sounds for my thriller film to make my scene better quality.

The sounds include:

  • Bag movement
  • Syringe flicking
  • Door slam
  • Water dripping
  • Paper rustling
  • Footsteps

After recording our foley sounds we uploaded them onto Premiere Pro so that we could match them up to our video. We then changed the volume and pace on them to get them how we wanted them to be. The sounds gives an extra element of anxiety onto our film and looked great.

I used various tools when making my thriller such as volume and speed,voice recorder and Premiere Pro.

We changed the volume and sound of some of our recordings because they came out quiet, we also had to record them three times because the first recordings picked up voices in the background, the second recordings were bad quality, which then meant we knew how to get the sounds we wanted right in the third recording session.

We were offered the chance to edit on audacity, but we thought it worked better if we edited them on Premiere Pro, so we did that. I personally think the sounds came out how we wanted them to and worked well when applied to our thriller.

Sound Design

A key aspect of a good thriller is the sound. To help us understand different sounds and music which might be used within a thriller we listened to a sound clip. While listening to the clip we noted down key words on how we are feeling and what we imagine when listening to it,so that we understand what goes into the background sound in a thriller, this process is called synesthesia. Synesthesia is images you imagine while listening to sounds.

This task proved to be helpful because it gave me a larger understanding to what kind of sounds I may use when I add sounds onto my own thriller.

Below is the ‘word it out’ I made to express my thoughts and feelings I felt while listening to the sound clip.

Below is the order of sounds that we think we will use when adding sounds onto our thriller piece.

Here are some sound tracks I have used to up the suspense in my thriller. I used an eerie background sound throughout the whole background and also slight booms and bangs to make my thriller more fearful for the audience.

Here are some Foley sounds I have recorded to add natural sounds onto my thriller such as walking and the rattling of the bag that was being dragged and the gloves being stretched and slapped against the skin.

Draft 2 (Edit including titles)

This is our draft 2 of the thriller with the added improvements and titles that we made on after effects which has helped to start finalising our thriller.

Below is the feedback we were given about our titles. We were given our feedback by Alex,Becksley and Caitlin.

They thought that:

  • Our titles worked well altogether.
  • we need to make sure the titles are easy to read and are positioned well.
  • Make sure that we didn’t break much continuity.

Other feedback we have been given to help improve are feedback are:

  • The titles are bit quick.
  • Make our titles fade off even if they have to go over clips,like the fade off with the main title.  
  • The grainy cloud at 0.06 might need to be all the way through or more.
  • Cut when the doctor walks towards the camera at 0.19 is a bit halted so need to fix that by making him walk earlier.
  • At 0.41 is there a close up of the plastic being ripped?
  • 0.57 close up point of view of the diagrams?
  • MOA at 1.41 is a bit odd,do we break the 180 degree rule?
  • Transition back to Harry starting to move?
  • 1.56 Harry’s eyes have a smile in them we could zoom into them more?

Titles Design and Production

Below are some screenshots of techniques we used while editing the titles.

I used the font ‘Stika’ for my titles because it fitted well with the theme of my thriller by looking neat to show the cleanness of the doctors lab coat but it also has pointy edges which makes the words seem mysterious and sinister which therefore ended up looked effective on top of my film.

This is a screenshot of a title being cut down to fit in time with our narrative, we cut it down to have the timings right so that they stayed on the screen long enough but not too long, so that they were easily readable

This is a screenshot of my main title. We used an animation that made the writing disappear away from the screen so that it makes the sequence feel more suspenseful and thrilling. It was important to use the right animation to ensure our thriller looked creative and crisp and that it fitted with the narrative.