Planning: Potential sounds

Before we make our film opening, we looked at potential sounds we may use. We looked at a lot of sounds from the website Freesound. We used this site because all of the sounds are free to use and easy to find, we decided to find sounds that would be suitable to use.  Each of these sounds have a star rating out of 5 so we will be looking for some of highest rating sounds. All of these sounds have the name of the person that uploaded them as well as the date, how many downloads and how many comments. When picking a sound, we will look at the comments to see what people think of that particular sound. Next to the search bar, there is a drop down arrow with a lot of options to choose from such as if we want a long sound, we would select the longest first option, the image shown shows all of the useful filters.

We tried to find bird noises to resemble calmness and show the audience that the location is very isolated. As you can see from the screenshot, i just typed in birds and over 6000 different bird sounds come up as well as 230 pages meaning we have a lot to choose from. So this site is going to help us a lot in order to find particular sounds so we are not going to struggle.

Another potential sound we may get would be white noise, this is going to be really useful because at the end of our opening, there is going to be white noise on the phone to show that something eerie is going on within the area and that something is causing the phone to do that, making the audience feel nervous and uncomfortable as it is very confusing as what is going on. But unlike the bird sound, there are not as many white noise sounds but there are still enough that we can find to use.



We also wanted to use a heartbeat within our opening, this is because with our running scenes, the heartbeat will increase tension within the scene and make the audience feel as something bad is going to happen to that person, we are also going to resemble it as the runners heartbeat, when it is beating fast it can show that the runner is scared and wants to escape from whatever is chasing him.


One more sound we would like to use would be breathing, this is kind of the same reason as for the heartbeat to resemble the runners breathing deeply and this will show the audience that this person may be tired and even scared because when people get scared, they breath quite deeply because they have just been shocked.