Sound

The editing of sound was something that was quicker than we originally thought it would be. It was said in the criteria of the project that all the music had to be obtained from a reliable, non-copyright source - which was something we were dissapointed about as we originally had thought of some excellent copyright music that would have fitted in with our film opening. Saying this, the music we did found fitted in really well with the action, and we got it from audolgfl.org.uk which has a large range of non-copyright material.

It was in fact a learning curve for all of us in terms of managing the music, but has left us prepared for the next time we need to use music in a project. At first we were unable to specify a certain point for all areas where the music would change without the voiceovers being present, and so it meant we have to wait until their editing is complete before we are able to finish off the music.

We did need approximately 3 styles of music for our film; one disco-themed track for Jimmy Jazz, one salsa-themed track for Rodrigo and one fighting theme for Jimmy Jazz's 'workout' - and these all needed to be alternated at various points of the film. Instead of using several for each genre, we wittled it down to one of each and picked out various parts of the song for different parts to avoid repeating the same music over and over. This turned out to be the best idea because it provides the audience with a specific assosiation to each character.

The 'workout' routine is the only music we struggled to decide on. We wanted a sound that resembled one of 'Eye of the Tiger', but of course could not use that s it is copyrighted. So we browsed and browsed this site to find something that was as similiar to this thee as possible. Sophie and I spent just about 40 minutes of searching this site and narrowing down the one that was most fitted to the theme, which in the end turned out to be a song named 'Tough Titty'. It was important to us that the music was perfect, as sound is something that makes a film and we did not want to rush a decision in order to get it done quickly. Quality takes its fair old time.

Whilst doing this, Sam and Perry focused on editing, and whilst normally we all liked to be involved in each process we found in best to split off and perform seperate tasks to try and fit in with time contraints. Obviously once the music was selected, we played it to the boys to ensure that they were completely happy with it, which forutnatley they was!

If anything, we should have perhaps switched roles more often so that we could all experience different areas of the project. However, with time being something we did not have a lot of we tended to stick to our strengths in order to produce the best result.