Music and sound choices - Rosie's Post

The music website that we chose our music from was 'Incompetech' which has royalty free music that we can easily download to put onto our opening. 

By ticking the boxes 'eerie' and 'horror' (although we are doing thriller, this was the most relatable) the website narrowed it down to music that was appropriate. There were a lot of soundtracks that we liked however a lot of them were too short for what we wanted or the pace wasn't quick enough.

• The final track that we chose was called Redletter which included quite a lot of crescendos which quickly cut out, which creates more tension. It also included high pitched notes which I thought worked well on top of the low droning sound that plays in the background for an eerie atmosphere. 

• The timing of the tonal changes in the music also worked well with our footage; at times where it didn't, I decided to fade either the soundtrack or the sound from our footage. 

To change the volume on certain parts of your footage or soundtrack:

select the little 'pen tool' icon at the bottom of the tool list 

then at the bottom left hand corner, select the the icon that looks like little mountains pinky\red horizontal lines should appear on your track

wherever you want to make the sound increase or decrease, click on the line with the pen tool to create points that look like diamonds

Then just simply drag the points you have made to change it 

e.g. moving your second point higher than the first will cause an increase in the sound level - and the further away your tow points, the slower the increase will come in.