linked audio and visuals

The main Use of linked audio and visuals in the white room is defiantly the opening crosscutting sequence. In order to create this sequence i had to find a song that would fit the tone of the film’s opening as to give the advance the impression that they were about to watch a rather darkly themed film. This meant that I had to find a copyright free piece of music eventually settling on “Daydream” by “the lovin’ spoonful.” I then arranged the footage so that the shot would switch in accordance with the beat of the song. This gave the scene a sense of rhythm and made it seem professional. 

In the scene of the film which focuses around "Daydream" I decided that I had used enough of the lyrics of the song around the time of the slider shot on Aarons windowsill. In order to make the product sound the way I wanted it to I decided to use the cutting tool on premiere in order to remove the second verse of the song and instead skip straight to the instrumental/ whistling solo section of the song. Doing this presented me with a few challenges. As can be seen from the audio bar of adobe premiere which I have inserted below I had to cut the audio track perfectly in order make the two sections of the song fit together perfectly. I did this by making sure that the cut I did was on the top of a beat. This meant that I was able to stop the track and cut in an accurate place. 

Finally my final edit on this part of the film's audio was to fade the song out as the first duologue scene began,. This meant that the song wouldn't be cut of abruptly which, in turn adds to verisimilitude.

Links to the new tracks to be used: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlAGdr2opdM - For use in the opening scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWaNW-aYhVY&t=39s - For use in the conversation between wayne and aaron

Here I have show screenshots of the premier programme after these changes:

Later in the production In the film we decided that it would be of benefit to the film if we were to insert some background music in the scenes with and without dialogue. In doing this we had a complete rescore of the film. This resulted in the replacement of the song "Daydream" at the beginning of the film with a more tense, dark orchestral piece of music which ,we felt, would add to the tension of the piece as a whole. As well as this we added backing/ background music in the scenes of Aaron and Wayne speaking to each other as well as that of Christopher and Andrew and the scene of Christopher texting Andrew at the bus stop.  

As to adhere to copyright law we decided that it would be intelligent for us to use exclusively royalty free music which we did for the majority of the film. However at the end of the piece it is clear that we have used the song "Tighten" up by American band "The Black keys." The reason why this is an acceptable piece of music to use in our film was because we were able to check the copyright enforcement of the song through a tool which YouTube provided to us. To access this tool we went to my YouTube account >Creator Studio >Creator Studio > Music policies. We then searched for songs which we would like to use in the scene and found tat the Black Keys' song was available for use except in a few countries (Great Britain not included) 

This shows that the video will be viewable worldwide if the song "Tighten up" was used. 

Below I have inserted screenshots of my premier file after insering the new sounds: 

As can be seen in these screenshots the new music added a lot to the scenes as that the soundscape before had was rather empty due to the fact the had recorded no other sound other than the dialogue. The new sound also helped us to drown out sounds created by our own errors when filming the scenes. Most specifically the scene of Wayne and Aaron speaking whish we decided to use was suffered from the sound of the camera it was being filmed on focusing itself as that we had forgotten to urn off the Auto focus feature which the camera had enabled for the establishing shots which (as can be seen in my daily shooting schedules blog post) were filmed the same day. Coving up this error serves to make the viewer feel more verisimilitude in the film which in turn adds to the tension which the viewer is supposed to feel. 

As well as adding to the sound of the film during this process we also changed the look f the scene by applying a dark filter over the whole film as to help us convey the dark themes of the film (when we were filming the piece it was mostly in the daytime and therefore the shots we filmed 

Note: In some of these screenshots there may only be one video and sound layer. The reason for this is because while editing the film Me and my partners Josh and Jacob edited different sections of the film. After each of us had finished our initial edits we transferred each of our exported videos to one premier file which we then exported as our final film. While I understand now that there were other ways we could have done this which wouldn't have involved exporting each video none of us thought of a different method at the time. 

The scene shown above of Chris texting Andrew is our most obvious use of audio and video effects. as can be seen the scene required the use of a texting video effect as well as the sounds which are associated texting. This required a lot of editing to be created. In order to do this we downloaded both a template for the video effect which we then put over the video of the scene and added the text to each of the text bubbles which the effect gave us and the sounds of massages being sent and received on a smart phone. Below I have show how this looked when completed on adobe premiere. All of the sound used for the scene was downloaded from royalty free sound website www.Freesound.co.uk and was thetherefore not open to copyright violations.