Film Opening Sound Ideas

Hey blog, today was one crazy day! No one in my group went to class today, so we did not have much time to plan. I had a huge lacrosse game to prep for, and the other girls had personal things to take care of. However, we still were able to text about the project and figure some stuff out. It's a good thing we are all friends, because it helps us be able to contact one another at random times. We decided since we all were super busy that we should focus on another aspect of the idea and start researching into it. We assumed the easiest would be sound, being that it is a suspense movie. Here are a few of the ideas we discussed.

For sound, we want the voice over discussed in the previous post. We think this is essential to build the suspense wanted in the piece. It helps to keep the focus on the actions off on what the main character is doing, but explain the back story to the events taking place. I think this idea is unique, compared to just having dialogue between characters. It would incorporate well into our piece, and if done right would really be effective.

Similarly, we also want to do suspenseful background music. We will have to choose royalty free music, because neither of us are able to play or write music. However, we want it lightly playing in the back in order to cause an even greater effect. This will not be present for the entire piece, because it will draw somewhat of attention away from the voice over.

Another factor we want to incorporate is the sounds during the flashback. During this part, we want to include some dialogue because it would help us to hit all aspects of a good film opening. 

We didn't do much work today due to our busy schedule, but I think this brainstorming helped us to get organized. We now have a better idea of what we want to accomplish, and I hope we can get more organized from here.