Sound

Sound is very important in media as it forms and makes everything flow, but also highlights the mood and can create several emotions when being supported by camera shots.

Id like to add and imply foot step noises. For them to be loud but not to fast and not to slow. This will be listened to when the mysterious man is walking through the dark entrance into the main road. Building tension but also helping the audience go at his pace and how he is feeling, for example he is fearless so slow steps show a calm person, but loud can reveal that he has physical weight power but also important-due to the fact the audience are following him around at every step. I would like to also add non-diagetic foot steps as we tried as a team to create natural steps but failed because the wind was to loud and interfering. Playing around with Logic Pro has helped me understand all the different types of steps there are and what sort of assumptions each make. For example there was one sound me and Simon found humorous it was small and faced paced  and i thought that it sounded like a tiny animal much like a mouse running for food or a slice of cheese.

Many scary films include heartbeats. For example in Dawn Of The Dead these non-diegetic sounds are included before the subtitles are even showed. I think this is a very good technique to immediately capture the audiences attention. Heartbeats automatically give away the assumption that fear and danger is closeby. Id like to apply several heartbeat sounds when the young female is laying on the floor helplessly. Heartbeats also show a follow up of something extreme happening, the faster the beat the faster and pacier the scene.