Sound Design

For Sound Design the procedure will be reasonably straight forward, this is purely down to our choice of location. We are filming our short film sequence in a domestic environment which will be a huge factor in successfully manipulating the sound techniques we are going to use. From analysing our sequence we think it will be appropriate to use Foley sounds, there are a number of scenes and shots where sound would have to be enhanced in order to have maximum effect. For example the power cut diegetic sound is hard to portray using just the microphone on the camera as it doesn't catch much quality in the sound and so we will therefore need to use a Foley or post-filming recording.

We have decided to record all of the dialogue with voice recorders supplied by the college, again, so that we can manipulate frequency levels. This method also comes into play when we use diegetic and non-diegetic soundtracks. For example a particular scene reveals the four characters conversing and playing the board game with a diegetic soundtrack in the background, in order for us to combine both the diegetic soundtrack in the background and the dialogue from the character, we will need to have clear levels of sound from both sources in order to lower and raise the levels without any distortion.

  In terms of organisation we need to be prepared going into the filming session with the correct equipment that will deliver what we need. This requires renting a Sony sound recorder from the media suite at least two days before our filming session. Secondly for our non-diegetic soundtrack theme we have decided to select an iconic enigmatic thriller type soundtrack. For inspiration we have researched a number of successful feature length thriller films such as 'Sicario' and 'No Country For Old Men.'
Despite the fact these two examples aren't short films I believe its irrelevant in context of sound design, all thriller sequences seem to share the same pattern; tense, suspenseful and full of anticipation.