Evaluation Question Seven

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Question Six

What have you learnt about technologies during the process of constructing your media product?

Evaluation Question Five

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation - Question Four

Who Would The audience For Your Media Product Be? 

Evaluation - Question Three

What kind of Media Institution would distribute Your Media Product and why?

Evaluation - Question Two

How does Your Media Product Represent different social groups?

Evaluation - Question one

In what ways does your media production use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Post-Production: Adding Sound

For our audience testing of our first rough draft of the film opening (containing no music) we gathered information, opinions and preferences from members of our target audience about what sort of music we should be adding to our opening. The majority of them agreed that the music we add should be eery and should gradually build up tension. We started by searching for copyright free scores or instrumental music that we thought would fit the opening well. Although we found some good lullaby tracks to add, we were having trouble finding one that fit well with the tempo of the opening. We also needed to display a significant shift in emotion through the music when the darker flashbacks started.

However in the end we found a good clip on YouTube of copyright free music that fit our opening well. To build up the tension during certain scenes, we added a deep bass sound subtly under the music. We also added a sound effect of a kettle whistle to help create tension as well. For the darker flashbacks, we found a more sinister, sadder music piece from a copyright free channel on YouTube and added it into our piece. We also added the same kettle whistles and bass effect to add tension for this as well. Both the kettle and the bass sound effects were downloaded the website http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

Towards the end of our opening, we have a fast paced section of quick edited flashbacks which builds up the our main character looking directly into the camera at the end, to help build the tension we added bass sounds and high pitched effects as well as the music. We also added a heartbeat sound effect into this section to represent our main characters panic at her actions. At the end of our opening when she looks into the camera we took away all the sound effects and just left the bare music for the sound. This creates a unsettling feeling as the music makes it sound quite childlike, and her unstable mental condition creates a sense of destroyed innocence.

During the happier flashbacks in our opening and the tracking shot of the bench scene we added bird song in the background to create realism as they are sat outside in the countryside. We added the word song from a clip on youtube. We did this because we wanted to show that their memories are vivid. Another example of this is for the scene where the girls are looking into the pond, we added swirling water sounds, bird song and laughter. The laughter we had pre-recorded earlier while filming and for the swirling of the water Georgie recorded herself moving her hand in a sink of water.