CONSTRUCTION: Sound

On the day of filming we had a few problems regarding the sound quality of our clips. We managed to fix a few of these issues by adding the DeNoise effect to reduce some of the excess sound, including: wind and other people's voices. We also added a DeReverb to the sound clips to negate some of the echo that came into the clips that we filmed indoors. 

However, one of the major struggles we came into contact with was that some of the sound clips couldn't be salvaged. So as a result we had to voice over some of the clips so what the actor was saying could be heard loud and clear. To overcome this issue, we went to a room which was sound proofed and used a good quality microphone to recapture the voice. We made sure we played the clip that the actor was voicing over was playing in front of them, to assure that the sound was in sync to the video as to make sure it was not out of place.

For the backing track music, ew decided to follow codes and conventions of a Film Noir film. This meant finding the appropriate style of jazz music for our film. We searched the internet for a 1920-50s Jazz style of music and found one by C148 called "Stal". We felt this was appropriate as it has the classical Jazz riffs which were stereotypical of the time. We decided to make sure that the backing track was purely in the back of the film to make sure it didn't over power the voices of the actors in each scene. When it came to the second scene at the marina, I wanted to switch up the pace of the music in order to build suspense to the scene as the detective had entered the lions den of Big Boss. We researched different types of suspense music that could fit in with the time depicted. We feel as though the music we chose fits the scene well.