Thursday 30 January 2014

Audio of Flora singing (why it's not featured on our trailer)



This is a recording we were initially going to use as a group for our horror trailer. Using 'Audacity' we recorded the signing of our first cast Jalisa (who we were going to use previously for our production). We wanted to include religion, due to the fact that it's conventional for the horror genre. Following the convention, we decided to subvert religion (where we twisted it) where we made it more distorted and creepy to suite the the horror theme. However after we recorded the audio we noticed that she was far too pitchy and thus did not sound the way we wanted it to be, as in some areas where we needed to be louder she actually done the opposite (quieter). We then played around with the sound by adding a background track (from 'Youtube'), in hope to enhance the horror atmosphere, in doing so we hoped to create an uncomfortable experience for our audience as a way of them distancing from the character of Flora, and thus not view her as innocent as she appears. This also helped to reinforce the horror genre we were going for, although we decided not to use the the recording we created- we however used the actual  'creepy music box' in our trailer. This worked well within our trailer, as we were about to slightly manipulate it, making it sound much more sinister and uncomfortable for our audience as a way of evoking our audience. (We done research were we chose an audience and blind folded her whilst she listened to such track, she then gave us feedback as to what she felt  was far too distorted or made her uncomfortable due to the darker element. From her feedback we changed the sound slightly as she stated 'it's slightly distorted and thus harder to actually hear the words being said'. This meant that we had to change it, in order for it to be 'just right'. I personally felt this feedback was good, as it enabled us to improve both our editing and promotion of our production from potential audience).  

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