November 24th

In our lesson today we managed to file all of the clips into a correct order.Before we started to edit our film, we first started to search for suitable music to feature in our horror opening. Our first obvious option to find music was on the iTunes store which was available on the school Macs. Whilst searching for music/sounds we had the aim to find a certain type of music, i.e fast paced in places - adding tension, eerie and sinister. After a long search we felt these particular tracks were perfect for our opening:

Dark Mysterious Tone - 15 seconds
Dark Mysterious Tone 4 - 27 seconds
Door Slam - 8 seconds
Mysterious Sound - 3 seconds
Nightmare on Elm Street - 36 seconds

These sound clips vary from diegetic ( obvious sounds like door slam, which would be expected in the frame, aswell as non diegetic sounds, like background music)

The only problem we faced with the music was the high prices of the tracks. As most of the songs were 3 minutes long, we felt we would be wasting money when we would only need short, 30 second clips of sound. We came to the conclusion that instead of buying and downloading the music, we could record the previews on a phone and import them into Final cut Express. The short sound clips could be repeated and re-used at significant parts of the opening, which helps create a sense of repetiton and continuety.