Inputting the sound into our trailer

Inputting the sound into our trailer

Now that we have been able to produce non diegetic sound to go alongside our trailer, all we have left to do is insert it into our trailer with the other non diegetic sound that we have already inserted. 

I started by aligning the new non diegetic sound up with the production company clip, in order to have the sound begin as the production company is shown on screen, this was it eases the audience into the narrative of the trailer with no sudden changes in the sound too early on in the trailer. However, I did encounter an issue when inputting the non diegetic sound of the piano melody into the trailer.

 Although I had made sure that the sound matched up to the exact timings of the trailer as I produced it, I did not trim the track of the "ear ringing noise" therefore it went on further than needed. To resolve this issue, I had to delete that individual track from the Logic Pro project, bounce the file and import it into our footage. From then, I had to import the "ear ringing noise" file into iMovie separately and adjust it by changing its fading options in accordance to the piano melody. 

I noticed that the ear ringing noise, once aligned to our footage, that it automatically lowered the volume of the non diegetic sound piano melody. To resolve this, I had to select the ear ringing noise track and unselect the ducking option, which enabled the dominant track to be automatically lowered in volume so new tracks could be heard. By doing this, it allowed the piano melody to dominate the trailer instead, which was what we were hoping for. 

At this stage of inputting the sound into our trailer,  I decided that the other non diegetic sounds that we had recorded prior to making the piano melody such as the whispers would extremely well with our piano melody. I dragged the whispers into place and then had to make sure that they did not dominate the sound entirely. We also thought it would be effective to add the sound of an old TV as it would help build suspense and add to the relevance  of the bad TV effect on our  green screen footage. 

Overall, adding the sound to our trailer has definitely heightened the effect of it. The sound for our trailer becomes the climax in terms of sound. We made sure we were able to build tension threough using sound effects such as 'swishing' noises and sinister sounding crashes. We applied each track carefully making sure that nothing overlapped the other causing extreme discomfort in the sound all together. We also had to make sure that the volumes of each track were fairly similar anbd worked well together, so we had to manually apply a fade out or fade in to certain tracks so the audio sounded together and not random and detached.

The montage scene is an example of how we manipulated audio of a video clip, in the sense that we layered and echoed certain dialogue such as "Schizophrenia" so the audeince to make a direct link to what our narrative entails. 

Lastly, we chose to use silence after the montage scene so the suspense and tension that we built through our montage is now being held by the audience so that way we can have them on the edge of their chairs. We decided to end our trailer with the scream from the antagonist in the loft and non diegetic sound as the title of our trailer flickers on the screen.