Editing: Day 7

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THE FINAL DAY!!!!! We've worked so hard on this film and it feels so good to be almost done with it. Thinking our film was generally done, we called Sir over and asked for his opinion. He advised us that the opening 30 seconds is silent and it doesn't sound quite right, so we should add in some more diegetic sound or another soundtrack just to fill in the space.

We first attempted to restore the diegetic sound in the clips but it was a lengthy process and a lot of the background noise in the clips was white noise or us talking, fairly useless.

We'd toyed around with the idea of having a recording of me humming a song to play over the top of the music. It was a natural and diegetic sound which would seem realistic and we moved into the other Media Studies lab to record it. However, my voice sounded fairly poor over the Apple Mac software and it doesn't flow very well in time with the action on screen. With this in mind, we chose to cut it, brainstorming other options.

Sir suggested that we use the other track of music we'd had as an option for the main background music playing throughout the film. We weren't sure but Sir insisted that we needed sound to film the opening 30 seconds of silence, especially since our film was a peppy romantic-comedy. Silence in the opening sequence is generally a tactic used in thrillers or horror films. "Clear", edited and ready to be used, was inserted and we played it. Initially, I'll be honest, I wasn't keen on it, as I thought two sets of different music in two minutes seemed too crammed and wouldn't flow. However, after playing it over a couple of times, I got used to it and we kept the piece.

Sir was also eager for us to include some human diegetic sound, like a door shutting and squeaky mirrors. We didn't have any of these sounds pre-recorded and there weren't any available clips of Garage Band or YouTube so we had to create our own. Carolina and I took a whiteboard marker pen and wrote on the window, with me drawing swiggles and Carolina recording, Sam taking a couple of photos.

We also recorded the sound of the door closing. Carolina emailed the clips to our hotmail accounts and edited the sound clips and and inserted them in the different points in the film. This added another dimension to the film and made it that much more realistic.

Pheebs, OUT! ;)