During our editing, i was given the task to find sounds to add to our opening two minutes of our horror film, i had the inspiration to find Foley sound which we learned about in 'Importance of Sound' in a previous blog post. I used the website free sound which is a collaborative repository of creative commons licensed audio samples in which the audio files aren't copyrighted allowing them to be used freely by anybody.
I started off by searching for generic key words that linked to particular scenes in our opening scene, so for this particular one i searched the clips that matched the sound of the undergrowth and the pace of which our characters are tracking through the forest, this particular sound clip was very useful for this scene, but it wouldn't be suitable for our chase scene due to the fact the pace of the footsteps wouldn't sync properly and it wouldn't give the desired effect. 
I also tried to use broad generic key words to search for our running scenes, however nothing that came up was particularly useful which is a downside to the user created clips of free sound. Luckily our running audio from the scenes where clear enough to be used and it created the desired effect which we wanted.
Another audio clip we needed was a tinny sounding white noise, we tried to record white noise with the external microphone on the video camera itself but with too much background noise the clip wasn't very persuasive, so we opted to use free sound to find a higher quality sounding clip which we found in abundance. The reason for the white noise is that it is the link that associates our protagonist, the white noise will be used to indicate that 'He' is close...
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