Editing Blog: Adding Audio

For the past couple of days, my group and I have been focusing on editing. This is our strategy because we can't do any filming till next week. During these days, we've been working on two main things: titles and music. First off, titles. Since titles were the thing we got the most critiques on, we decided to work on them as soon as the peer review was done. We started with putting them in their correct spots according to our storyboard. (We had to change some positions for missing scenes.) Then we started to rework the fonts, colors, and sizes of the titles. For some scenes, we added filters for a better contrast between the titles and the background. Lastly, we went back and fixed if any names were wrong or changed. This brings me to my next topic of our audio. For this film, we found royalty free music that sets an ominous tone for the beginning. The song we are using is called The Disappearance by Emmett Cooke. Originally, we had a song picked out by an artist named Farrell Wooten so that's the name in our storyboard powerpoint. However, we've changed the music, so we've changed what the title says. When we downloaded the music, we ran into one small issue. Every few seconds, the track would say the name of the website we downloaded from. To try and fix this, since this was our favorite score, we cropped the music in different positions to stop from hearing the sound in the film. After we did this, we went in and increased the sound of dialogue in certain scenes. We also did this for scenes where we wanted ambient sound.