One suggestion made by our media teachers on our second draft was that we used more original sound. (you can see my original sound post here). Our media teachers thought that we could make our film more effective if we created our own sound. We decided to take this feedback on board and work as a group to improve the music on our product to make it more original.
The first thing we decided to change was the music on our dance sequence, we decided to re-create a similar piece of music using the program GarageBand, we worked together to create a piece of music which built up at the end, just like Requiem - Mozart. One thing I found with creating our own film soundtrack was that it was a lot easier to match the sound with the visuals, we had a lot more control which we didn't have when using sound found on Youtube. We created our dance sequence music by using the sound 'Delicate Piano 01' at the beginning and then we used 'Emotional Piano 05' at the end, I am very happy with the music we created as it matches the visuals very well, it builds up well which symbolizes Sophie's struggle and frustration with her dance. As well as using this music over the dance sequence we also played this music at the end of our film to link the two halves of our film together. Another change to our film sound which we made was adding more ambient sound. We decided to increase the amount of ambient sound as this was a key convention of the social realist genre, we added more sound to the rope walk sequence by layering sounds of birds, wind and footsteps on top of the music we used for the sequence. We also recorded and added ambient sound to the beginning of our film so that there wasn't as much of an 'awkward silence' which our media teachers commented on when watching our second draft.
