Foley sound

In our film opening there are many chase scenes, at times we want there to be tension music playing however we also want to recreate some of the original sound to make it more authentic and realistic.

In the opening one of the victims Georgia falls and knocks of her galsses, before this she is running up the stairs. I have, with the help of abbie, recorded the sound of footsteps running up the stairs and falling to the ground.

To do this I carefully watched the oringinal footage to attmept to recreate the speed. This was extremely difficult as I had to run as well as watch the footage on a very small phone screen. I also tried to make sure that the shoes and the surface used were similar. We found a concrete staircase in our school that had about the same number of stairs and also made the smae sound. In the oringinal footage the victim wore shoes with quite thin soles and so my school shoes worked perfectly to recreate, I just slammed my feet down harded to make the sound seem more frantic.

This took many attmepts but below is one of the videos we created

Then, we moved to the scene where Joe, the male victim, is running through the staircase door to the lift. This was a very big, heavy door and so we needed to use one similar. The one we used had glass windows in it making it lighter, this was not ideal but we slammed it back against the wall harder to compensate for this. However, when we edit this on to the footage we may need to review this and use a better door.

Abbie noticed that the door was squeaky and had a good rusty hinge sound. We felt that this would be ideal because it has the eerie sound that is used often in horror films. So we decided to get a close up video of the hinge sound so that this sound can be added in and even distorted and played with to make it sound even more scary.

 

RUNNING THROUGH DOOR



HINGE SOUND

After doing this, we went back to one of the first chase scenes which happens before the glasses are dropped. This scene was especially complicated because we had to represent both the victims who were moving very differently at very different speed. As well as this, Abbie was wearing soft-soled shoes and so had to compensate for this by slamming her feet down harder. Working our timings out was diffcicult, my character was slow and followed on from the other charcater. Abbie's character was fast, heavy footed and did a sort of run/skip which was hard to replicate.

*insert video*

We are unsure about whether the footage will work well with this sound and so editing will be slightly trail and error. However, if the sound is incorrect then will consider refilming in the recording studio where the conditions are far more controlled.