As I have acted in our film opening, my main contribution to the group is sound editing, logo editing, and filming of the insert shots.
Are you enjoying the editing process?
The editing process is harder than I thought it will be. I had to listen to a lot of sound effects, including scary follies. As someone who's not very fond of scary movies, I would sometimes get the chills when I listen to the sound as it plays in my noise-canceling headphones.
I used apple's built-in software: voice-memos, GarageBand, and iMovie. I essentially recorded my voice using voice memos and then I exported all of the audios I wanted to use.
After that, I moved all the chosen audio to GarageBand. Here, I did the sound editing by changing the pitch of every audio. I did this to mimic multiple people talking and also show the mind of an unstable person. Here, I started layering all the sounds. This is a difficult part as I had to layer 11 audios to give the "voices-in my head" feeling when you listen to it.
I learned some techniques at Face Productions, the company where I do paid voice acting. This included speaking a step away from my device so the audio of the voice recording wouldn't be muffled and minimizing the unnecessary static sounds since I didn't have professional equipment like a condenser. (Please refer to Blog#8 for the audios I have recorded due to wix collapsing because of insufficient storage)
Some editing videos I watched:
Is your editing style appropriate for your genre and audience?
The sound editing I have used is heavy with follies and sound effects and this is a convention with thriller films as it heightens and evokes the "thrilling" feeling in the audience.
Toward the end of the opening, I added a screaming sound that adds a sense of scariness with the masking of the scene. This creates a really good jump scare as a screaming sound is conventional to thriller films because the character on screen has been frightened by something which has a profound effect on the audience. Sound that the characters cannot hear and is not part of the imaginary world of the story.
Overall, I think the sound editing support the thriller narrative we wanted to convey in our opening/ However, I believe there are parts that I could've used better L-cuts and J-cuts cause in some bits of the editing, it seems that the sound gets cut abruptly.
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