Sound in Post-production

For our title sequence, we needed a few different sounds. In the first half in the crime scene portion, we need sounds of the door opening and closing. After shooting, Taylor asked me to record sounds of closing an opening my door. I had to do this a few times, because I was worried about the audio clips being too short or too long, but I eventually got it to the desired length after consulting Taylor. In the background of this part of the sequence, we used mysterious music to add to the criminalistic and eerie feel of the video. In the second half, which was the office scenes, we needed the dialogue most importantly. For this, we used Taylor’s AirPods to record the audio. Since they are wireless and bluetooth, it was very convenient because we could attach one piece to Tommy and one piece to Becca. This way we were able to easily record the audio and add it later in the editing phase. Then we also thought about ambient sound. To make it more obvious to the audience that the scene was taking place in the detective’s office, Taylor recorded some noises from our classroom of random conversations and the phone ringing and other noises like this to add to the overall feel.