Sound Effects, Dialogue and Music

Sound Effects

As with every film, we needed to use sound effects to make our production seem more realistic. These sounds needed to be free to use and also royalty free. We had a short list of sounds we needed to find, which were; Gun shots, traffic noise, office sounds, telephone ringing and people talking. We sourced these sounds from a selection of websites listed below.

http://www.audiomicro.com/free-sound-effects

http://soundbible.com/tags-gun.html

http://www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/

http://www.audiomicro.com/free-sound-effects/free-electronics

Dialogue

We had some concerns about the strength of our camera's mic and discussed overdubbing our dialogue, however we decided not to overdub as this could have led to a poor quality edit with lag and delay. It turned out that the mic built into the camera was more than strong enough. We used a Canon 500d for all our filming. 

Voice Overs 

To achieve an acceptable standard of audio quality, we decided to record the voice overs in a studio using an Apple mac, Logic Pro and a high quality condenser microphone with a pop filter.   

Music

Our film needed background music in order to create a feeling of adrenalin, suspense and atmosphere. The tracks we chose were not royalty free, however we bypassed this using the ''Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976 which allows for 'Fair Use' of all the songs."  We posted this disclaimer on our YouTube video and acknowledged that we held  no copyright to the music.

To start with we used a piece of music entitled 'Underwater' from the 'Big Fish' soundtrack. This was chosen as it had a slow, building up feel but also had tones of a minor key to it, giving the beginning a sense of forboding to show something bad is going to happen. We also decided to use some music from the soundtrack of the popular video game 'LA Noire' due to the fact that it fitted the Film Noir style well. This music was mainly in a minor key to blend in with the action. For the end scene of our film, we used a song called 'Every Dream Comes To An End' by an artist called UNKLE whom we sourced on YouTube. This was chosen because the music suited our ending due to the fact that it included strings and slow, sad piano chords.