Monday, 29 April 2013

Looking for Audio



Looking for the audio and using the right audio is the most important part of the creation of this promotional video as the audio sets out the mood for the film. This process is key to the success of this promotional video so a lot of thought needs to go into this. To begin with I looked a number of “horror soundtracks” back to back; there was video that was 30minutes long which played soundtracks from famous/popular films. I looked at existing horror trailers to see what kind of mood the audio had like if is loud or quiet and tense. I noticed to begin with the audio is a quiet beat and then when the story unveils it becomes more scary like. Films I looked at were The Woman in Black and Possession both followed this kind of track. From the audio I listen to I quite liked the Exorcist Theme Song to have at the start of the video and Poltergeist 2 Soundtrack to play towards the middle and going to the end but when I listened to the full I felt something was missing it didn't sound quite good enough but at this point I did have a certain sound I wanted to be played.

I was introduced to Incompetech by my tutor, which supply royalty free music, all the music is free and they have a variety of genres. I looked in the horror genres, weren't so keen on anything that I listened to so I decided to look at the different genre I went into “wonder” and I found Dreamy Flashback which would go perfectly and also another one by the name Frost Waltz. It was between these two but one had the edge and it was Dreamy Flashback, it fit more with the beginning and it was like the ones on the trailers I saw. This audio will go at the front of the video and will not be very long. As for the audio for the rest of the audio I will have the soundtrack from The Possession from Scala and Kolacny Brothers as I really liked this and couldn’t find an alternative. I think this will go very well with my clip.


The whole process of looking for the audio was very long because I wanted the perfect audio as I believe this is as important as the actual clip. In the end it worked out well as I have two great audio that I can imagine will go very well in my video. 


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