Taylor has finally rearranged all the clips in the order that we want to, so the video part is essentially done. We just need to add the sound in. She had me record sound of my door closing and opening and also she recorded ambient noises of the phone ringing and other various noises in the classroom to make the scene feel more realistic as an office.
She went into more depth with the sound by looking at other movies that we had been researching about during this project such as Murder on the Orient Express, Crooked House, and Sherlock Holmes. In most of the movies, we found that the majority of sound is non-diegetic and is mostly creepy music that creates the background and mood of the scene.
For the background music, we initially found some songs that could’ve worked at the beginning of this project and we made a note of these to look back at. When we started looking at the music options and keeping our title sequence in consideration, the choice that we had originally selected didn’t seem scary enough or mysterious enough. The vibe was a little off and it took away from the mysterious and eerie factor of the scenes. So we researched a little more and found another choice that fit better and we decided to go with this. In editing, Taylor just laid the track over the clips at a lower volume on the first half (crime scene) and then faded the sound out when it got to the detective’s office part. For this second half, this is when the sound clips of the ambient office noises came into play and she just added this sound on top of the clips as well. Then there was also the dialogue sounds which needed to be added. We recorded the dialogue separately as we were filming on Taylor’s AirPods which went straight to her phone as a voice recording. She was able to add these clips on top of the scenes through the system we made of clapping before the action started. This allowed her to easily sync up the video and audio to produce the desired results.
Into the Truth 