Sound.

Sound effects


For the film, we needed different sound effects to help make the film more realistic. These sound effects were free to use and royalty free. The sound effects we needed were: gun shots, traffic noise, office sounds (people talking and a telephone ringing) and they came from the websites hyperlinked 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 recorded the dialogue live with the acting, using an in camera microphone. The camera used was a Canon 500d. This picked up the sound effectively.



Voice overs


For the flashback, as in the film we wanted darkness and the actors not seen, instead of recording the voice over on the camera we used a studio available in school, used for recording music. Having the professional microphones and other recording equipment we achieved high quality clips. We also used this for the voiceover where Luke (Barnaby Frisco) sets off for work.



Soundtrack/Background music


We needed background music in our film to help create atmosphere and certain moods. To do this we used a mixture of music from different sources. As the tracks we chose are not royalty free, we bypassed this by using the "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976 which allows for 'Fair Use' of all the songs." and posted this on the details of our film on Youtube, giving full credit to the artists and songs featured in our video.

First of all we used 'Underwater' from the 'Big Fish' soundtrack. We chose this as it had a slow, easing in feel but also had certain minor tones to it, giving a foreboding beginning to show something bad will happen. We also used music from the soundtrack of the video game 'LA Noire' as it suited the Film Noir style well. Most of this music featured pianos, brass and bass suiting the 40's-50's theme, and was in a slow minor key to fit with the happenings in the film. However the fight scene background music was in a faster pace to help increase the action in the scene. For the ending of our film, we used a track called 'Every Dream Comes To An End' by UNKLE. We chose this as the track suited our tragic ending well, being very slow and solemn by including string instruments and slow piano chords.