Editing in the media suite and recording the tagline

On Monday 12th December we continued to edit our final trailer, again we used Adobe Premiere Pro, last lesson we had some trouble putting the sound that I had recorded on to the trailer as it was saved as an amr file, so I had sent them to Shona so she could save them on her i-tunes library, we then were able to add the sound onto the trailer, we knew that when we put the sound on our trailer we would have to cut them to fit the clip where we wanted to feature them as they ran too long. However for some we did not want to cut the voice out of them as this would mean cutting the sentence short so we selected the sound clip, pressed left click and changed the speed/duration of the audio to 130 to make it slower. This made the voice last the duration of the clip so it was long enough to have a lingering effect for the viewer.

The first sound that we decided to add was at the beginning of our trailer as we were going to add the sound in the order that it will be heard - the voice I had recorded could now be put on the trailer, we found that it lasted as long as the clip, we found that it now sounded much quieter, but we want Scarlets voice to sound muffled and almost like a whisper to make the viewers concentrate and to reflect Scarlets shy, quite personalty.
Also last lesson Shona and Amy had said that they did not like the voice clips that I had recorded for the doctor as the voice I had used did not sound clear enough to be a doctor, so we decided to use someone with a deeper voice, we used a family member of Shona's for this and we listened back to the clip the voice was much clearer however the voice does not sound very scary or much like a doctor as there is a very strong accent to the voice but it still does fit in with the clip and we decided to use it as we wanted a voice that was distinctively different from Scarlet's. Next we had to add the sound for the flashbacks this was the 'ring around the roses' song, the song is very loud compared to the rest of the soft sounds in the trailer but it does relate to Scarlet's childlike nature and her past. We also decided to add in the sound of blowing wind which I hand recorded myself by blowing into the phone speaker and adding an echo onto it, this was not planned initially but when recording the sound I had thought that it was a good way to add an eerie ghostlike impact to the trailer and we have a lot of silence in the trailer so by using this sound we could keep the interested and engaged throughout the entire trailer, we added this to the scene where Shona (Scarlet) is walking across the bridge as this scene is silent but is one of the most tense scenes as it is the first time the villain is revealed to the audience, so this scene needed some form of audio, to make the recorded wind noise sound dramatic we turned of the audio that was already on the scene (the natural sounds of cars, talking etc) . This made the wind sound louder and much more dramatic and it fitted in with the scene very well.
We next added the soft whispering that I had recorded which would be shown during the murder scene, this was done when I recorded myself whispering 'she's behind you...' repeatedly, I felt that this would create tension for the viewer as they would see Scarlet's sister seemingly unaware of what is behind her. As this recording was intentionally quiet we needed to mute the natural audio on this scene too, we did this by selecting the clip and clicking the mini speaker sign next to the clip - this turned the natural sound of people talking, shouting and footsteps away to enable the viewer to hear what is being whispered which sound much more dramatic.
We then added the sound at the end of the trailer which was the humming that I had recorded last week, we wanted to leave the reader with a chilling eerie sound so I had hummed the start of the nursery rhyme 'ring a ring a roses' which I was quite pleased with as it sounded eerie and sinister and it related to the start of the trailer where the children would sing.

Finally to create a more professional finish we added a piano song which was created      on Adobe Garage Band, the song will be used to reflect the sad, gloomy tone. We all liked the effect the piano created as it made the trailer seem much more professional edge to the trailer we used the piano song in the clips where there was complete silence before to keep our viewers interested and engaged, now all we will need to do is add some of the doctors dialogue and the tag line, we also plan to add the final touches on the trailer before burning the disk.

 After the lesson on Monday we decided to record the tag line together, previously I had come up with the idea to have a different person day each word of ' Don't look into the mist...' this would show the question for identity that our main character had throughout the trailer and the different voices used would be very thought provoking for the viewers. So as Shona's Ipod was the only available recording device we decided to record the sounds on it and put in on Adobe Premiere pro in the next lesson as we will be adding the final touches to our trailer them, we took turns to say each word, we did this a few times to ensure that it sounded effective and there was no interference, we chose our final sound and I am overall pleased with how it sounds. For the end of the tag line I thought that it would be best if Shona whispered the end line as she did play the main character and although she does not speak in the trailer it would have relevance to her character in the rest of the film.