The Sound of Music

I'm happy to announce that we're officially done with our film opening. We finished adding everything together a couple of hours ago. All that's left is to render the video and upload it to YouTube.

We spent like 4 hours today adding in all of our sound and boy does it make a difference. We now have sound effects, music, and stings to really set the mood rather than the previous silence. It really helps out a lot.

We have two music tracks in our video. One of them is a royalty free pop song from killertracks called Nobody Like Me by Phillip Andrew Buckle. We felt it matched up with our character pretty well. This character gets very little introduction, but the music certainly helps to explain what she's all about. The other is a more generic horror track. It's much more subtle and gives off a creepy vibe. We found it on freemusicarchive.org. It's called Crises érotiques and it's made by
Pas Dans Le Cul Aujourd'Hui. I'm like 99% sure that's french. But it sounds spooky while being ominous, so we decided to use it.

We also found a few notification sounds to use in our opening. Our sound for receiving a text was taken from the sound effect called Phone Alerts and Rings on the YouTube Audio Library. It sounds like a super generic notification while also being royalty free. We had to go for it.

We have two stings in our project as well. Both were found on freesound.org. One of them, called "DeepReverbyBoom" was uploaded by the user waveplay. The other one, "Violin Scare" was created by a SirBedlam. Both serve a similar purpose, to make something more impactful. We use them for different things, but I think they ended up being pretty effective.

The rest of our noises, unless I'm forgetting something, are all made by us. Things like a door closing or a door creaking open were fairly simple to make. We just recorded us doing the things we wanted a sound for. We even created the sound of a window breaking ourselves. We simply got a glass jar, put it in a few layers of ziploc bag, and threw it into the street. It ended up working pretty well.

I would show you some videos of us creating our sounds, but I can't get the files onto this computer. My mom managed to cut our internet and TV cable while doing some gardening work, so I'm on a different computer than normal. You'll just have to watch the video to hear the sounds in action.

References:
Philip Andrew Buckle. (n.d.). Nobody Like Me [MP3]. Australia: Universal Publishing Production Music Australia Pty. Ltd. APRA.
Phone Alerts And Rings [MP3]. (n.d.). YouTube.