Sound Editing

 Introduction

    I've already discussed visual editing in films in my previous blog post, but I didn't talk about sound editing in film making. Sound editing can be considered the process of adding audio or background noise to a film as well as distortion of audio. For example, some films may add creepy background music while a character is exploring a dark empty room in a horror film or they might add pop music during a scene in a high school drama. The sound used in a film depends on the film's genre so a horror movie wouldn't have loud electro music with a positive connotation during a scene where a character is getting injured or killed. My team and I included audio effects such as a typewriter clicking noise while introducing the credit for our production company and the end credit with the title of our movie. We also added low creepy background music during the nighttime scene in the classroom, as well as a phone ringing noise to insinuate our protagonist getting a phone call. 

Reflection

    My group and I did encounter some problems during editing which was the audio shifting around constantly. If I added a new scene to our movie instead of staying in place, the audio would move forward or backward. Of course that wasn't ideal so I tried to not add any more audio clips into the film until I knew I was satisfied with the visual editing of our scenes and wasn't going to add or cut any more scenes. Once I was done with visual editing, then I added the necessary audio for our film which solved the problem and made editing loads easier. I spent about two hours editing the audio of our film in a way that I was satisfied with. I also added voiceovers in the film where the antagonist was talking to the main character over a phone call which also took time and required that I add some dialogue to our antagonist.