What have I learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Importance of Sound

Music in our opening sequence played a large role, we used it to allow the audience to distinguish the moods in the movie. We used music to build tension and therefore creating an atmosphere the represents the setting showed on screen. Therefore our music choices had to be thought of carefully and I personally think that it was indeed. For example the use of Wake by Linkin Park for the dream scene helped to build enigma, give it a creepy/ haunted feel giving it a un-natural atmosphere connecting it with the convention of psychological thrillers, so music also helped the audience also identify the genre of the opening sequence. It also gradually went louder making it build tension. We also used Something In the Way by Nirvana after the character woke up, this was used to reflect how the character feels without her even explaining her self. This track showed that the character is feeling negative/ un-happy. To ensure that all the music reinforces the mood of the setting and characters we tried several tracks before our final choice, and after all the experimentation we came to an agreement that these tracks would be the most appropriate to our opening sequence.


Exploring sound

In conclusion to this as a group we understood the significance of sound to our final product. Therefore sound can be used the express different moods and distinguish the settings from one another. We explored different tracks to our opening sequence to support this fact.



(We attached these songs by importing it to the iTunes Library and then thought that dragging it to our iMovie file (opening sequence), we made sure that it was placed in the right place using the iMovie time line.)





(The original opening sequence)

* From 1 minuet 10 seconds we added different music to our clip, from a negative slow song to a happy lively song.





Here is the preview of it;




After adding a completely different song that is more upbeat and positive to the opening sequence, the mood completely changed from before and contradicted the music at the dream part. It made it seem more positive and indicated happiness rather than sadness and negativity. Therefore one track can completely change the meaning we want to give to the audience. This supported the fact that sound has a significant impact on a movie, as it builds the atmosphere and gives the audience a hind on what the story line is like, whether is a "happy" type or a sad "type".