Sound Design - Megan

Soundtrack
We want to incorporate a soundtrack into our short film, so we looked around various websites to find one that we thought would fit in with the mood that we are trying to create. This website proved to be most useful, providing us with a couple of possible soundtracks that we could use.


 
This song is called Manner of Travelling by Hot Fiction. We came across this song whilst browsing for possible soundtrack ideas for our film, and liked the simplicity of it and the emotions that it evokes. We thought it would work really well with the ideas we have had for our short film, and thought that it could work particularly well in our flashback scenes.






This song is called Heartbeat and conveys similar emotions to the first one. However, we prefer Manner of Travelling, and have decided to use that as the soundtrack for our film.

Foley Sound
We have discussed the idea of using Foley sounds in our short film, and have decided that they may be necessary in a couple of places. For example we want sounds of cupboards closing in a couple of our shots, which may need to be added in afterwards to achieve the effects that we want.

Location Issues
Most of our shots will be filmed indoors, and therefore sound issues will probably not be too much of a problem. However, we will be filming outside in some cases and here sound may be more problematic. For example, we want to film a scene at college where there will be other people around, so we will have to try and keep our location as secure and quiet as possible, or alternatively we will have to be prepared to add in these sounds in post-production. We are also filming a scene where Sam and Amy walk down a road together, so obviously the sounds of traffic could be a potential problem here. We will have to get around this by finding a relatively quiet road, or if this is not possible then editing this shot slightly so that we see the characters walking somewhere else.