Post-Production (Sound): The Ending Scenes

For our ending scenes, we wanted a sound track which would add to the tension contrary to the footage shown. The footage is a cross-cut* of the 'stalker' trying to look for the boys and the boys hiding from the stalker.

*Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time in two different locations. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions but this is not always the case.

We wanted a sound track which built tension through the music. We took on the research into finding the track on the website "Imcompetech". This website giving us access to copyright free music, therefore being able to use the music it produces on the website. The website is perfect, as it as specific genres that the music is under. For the ending we wanted a tension building, yet eerie piece of music, therefore we ticked the genres to find the music.

This below is the options in which it gave me. As said previously, the options made it easy to find the perfect piece for our ending. I decided to pick Eerie, Intense and Unnerving, as this is what our ending was. Once I ticked the boxes for the ideal genre of music. It gave the list of the music under those categories. We then downloaded the music through mp3 and tried and fitted the music within our ending in which we edited.

Through trial and error, I found the perfect piece of music for our ending. "House of Leaves" was the chosen soundtrack to partner the ending scene, as well as "Anxiety" in which we used previously in the film during the prank call scene. These two pieces mixed together showed promise for the ending scenes.

Using Expodentional fade as an audio transition in Adobe Premiere Pro, we cut and fitted the music into the desired places (E.g, in time with jump scares, and important parts of the film), and finished the ending/film, with the music soundtrack which we feel adds hugely to the horror aspect.