Sound Production

Audio Techniques To Be Used
For our production audio and it's techniques are going to be vital in pulling off the intended look of the movie. Our movie being realistic and having a gritty tone.  Ambient noise was a great way of building tension we wanted a raw sound sixth the cuts and there are a few moments during the movie in which dialogue would be cut mid sentence and this makes a very realistic feel.

One of our inspirations for the sound and overall feel of the movie was a film called Right at your door. The film consisted of gritty dark recorded sound mixed in with radio and news broadcasts which we wanted to use to give the audience the feel of Isolation. Inspiration has also been drawn from many different found footage movies for example chronicle or the Blair Witch project where the audio is hard and cuts off. We used elements of found footage in some of scenes in the sense that we would cut mid sentence to make it feel like the audience is there.

The final scene was shot entirely in slow motion so naturally it was shot in slow motion. For the scenes we would be adding a lot of opt echo and distortion, these sounds mixed in with the ambience will be really key in making it abstract.



List of Sound effects/music
The Warning tone- This is one of the sounds you'll be hearing most throughout the movie, it'll be on in the background it'll be a prominent sound effect throughout. We make raise the audio when the characters are close to the T.V and lower it as they move away from it to give the feeling of the sound actually coming from the television.

Tension Building Ambience- This is very prominent in the opening scene with the shots of the park, you'll hear noises of the swings and a very low bass which adds to the tension. This track will be layered throughout the movie.

T.V Voice over- Throughout the movie there will be a voice over coming from the television. Myself and Alex will be doing the voice overs. The sound was recorded through Matt's T.V after the recording to give the audio a more realistic feel .


Foley
During one of our more tense scenes, our main character approaches a sliding glass door which is covered by blinds after hearing a noise. She gets to the door and as she pulls the blinds a shoots out and bangs on the window. This sound will of course made with the use of foley. One of the reasons to this choice was because we were shooting late at night in someone else's house which meant we had shoot a lot of our noisier scenes earlier. Another note about this scene the man has dialogue however this is going to be added in after the fact due to the aforementioned problem.


Equipment
Music recorder is Zoom H1 and live audio captured on set. The zoom is a good sound recorder which records clear sound, however one of the problems of the zoom is that it records in all directions and this proved a problem when filming particularly as most of our movie is set in a kitchen there was a sound of the fridge humming in the background which would stop periodically this was an issue that could be resolved in post production.

Logic is the program we chose for when it came to sound mixing and editing which will then be exported in to premier pro. We chose to use Wave for our sound file as it is very high quality format. We do not need to use an AIFF because this gives use 6 tracks designed for 5.1 surround sound which will not be a factor in mixing. MP3 is far too compressed and not of a high quality so we will be avoiding them.