Skills audit: Creation of soundtrack

After all the editing was done, It was time to create the soundtrack for our title sequence, The soundtrack is an important part of the title sequence, you have to get it right because the music sets the mood of the title sequence.

Before we started, we imported the video into Soundtrack pro to play on the side of the screen in time with the title sequence. To do this all we done was export the video for Soundtrack on Final Cut pro then import it into Soundtrack.

At first we were just experimenting with different sounds and tried to fit them to our movie. We went through quite a lot in the sound library on the bottom right of the soundtrack pro screen and we couldn't find one that could fit perfectly.

Background sound

After looking through many different sounds we found some long droney sounds that we thought fitted perfect. To get them on the tracks we just had to drag it it from the browser onto the track.

We kept building it up with different sounds and fitted it to the movie. We tried to make it uneasy and mysterious without over-doing it, because if we put too much sounds on it, it would just ruin the soundtrack so it was best to keep it simple. I had to add more tracks to fit all the new sounds that we were putting on soundtrack.

Sound effects

After finishing the long droney sounds it was time to add some sound effects. I added a kind of walkie-talkie signal sound for times where I used the dip to colour dissolve video transition.

I also added the footstep sound to go with the shot of the man walking and I added a reeverb effect to make it echo, when I added that effect a window came up so I could change different parrameters to make it sound perfect.

Other sound effects I used were the breathing when the captured victim came on screen and the walkie-talkie sound effect when the cctv footage is on.

For the breathing we didnt want the breathing to be the same throughout the whole sequence of the captured victim. When it started flashing with the blink video filter we wanted the breathing to get faster, I tried to do this on Soundtrack pro but it wouldnt let me change the tempo of the breathing sound effect so I exported the breathing sound effect seperate to the rest of the soundtrack. When I imported it into Final cut pro, I was able to change the tempo using that.

Overall the soundtrack wasn't too hard to make, even though it took long looking for all the right sounds that would fit our title sequence.