As we began searching for sounds online and from our provided sources, we realised that we didn’t have all of the sound effects that we needed and therefore we had to go out and record our own sounds. The scream and the footsteps that we found weren’t exactly what we wanted for our thriller so we had to record some of our own as well as a twig snapping as we couldn’t find that online and that is a crucial moment in our thriller that needs to be enhanced.

We manage to record all of the Foley sounds we needed  and uploaded them onto the computer in order to edit them to sound exactly as we want. We used a range of tools to achieve this: amplify the quitter ones, changing the speed on some of the sounds that we wanted to seem more intense , cutting sounds and cutting the bits we didn’t need.

Here are some examples of us working I audacity:

We couldn’t estimate how loud the sounds were going to be as we recorded them so therefore, the amplify tool was really useful as we could easily change the dynamics by reducing or increasing the decibels using the bar. Some of our sounds, such as the crunching leaves, we only wanted as a background sound to create the atmosphere and we were able to make that one a bit quieter whilst amplifying others such as the music which we wanted to be more clear.

In order to make sure we captured the sound within the recording, we left a space before and after recording the actual sound which meant that there was a lot of unnecessary audio that we needed to cut out.  We did this simply by using the cutting tool, you highlight the part you want to delete and then backspace to delete it. This was a very simple but very useful tool for us as when importing our sounds into our thriller, we found many of them were too long, and we were able to easily cut them and then re import them.

Another useful tool for us was the reverb tool. We wanted some of our shots to sound far more intense and authentic as sometimes, when they are pre-recorded, they lose their authenticity as they have become very processed, therefore, by adding some reverb to sounds such as the heavy breathing and the gasp, made it almost echo, which in turn made it sound far more realistic and creepy.

Once we had completed all of this individual editing if all of our sounds, we imported them into Premier Pro. Once they were in premier, we decided that some of the sounds sounded too harsh and not naturalistic so we decide to add some exponential fade transitions between the layers, in order to blend the sounds in with the clips so that they appear more natural and realistic as they fade in and out. We are yet to find any music that we feel fits well with out thriller as we believe that to create different atmospheres, we need two different pieces of music as the tone of our thriller changes throughout, however, overall, I’m very happy with how our sounds have turned out, they compliment our thriller very well.