Soundtrack

When we started to think about our soundtrack we decided that we wanted to use a heartbeat on each title when it appears to create a sudden, intense and dramatic effect which will shock the audience when viewing. Most heart beat sound tracks are known to become faster and faster and increase in pace, however we shall not do the expected and create the unexpected by keeping it the same pace and speed on each title throughout our trailer keeping the high intensity.
Secondary Research - we put all our efforts in to two lessons in class and I even researched out of school time at home, to find the perfect heart beat without it sounding too tacky or unrealistic. (Tayler)

A heart beat was decided to use in our trailer, as it is intense which suits our film story and horror genre, and works especially well over the original soundtrack song (that we grabbed and inserted from our itunes music playlist) we have inserted to play throughout.

Whilst still having the heartbeat affect we also decided we still liked the idea of a voice over. Here are some screen grabs of me and Tayler making the voice over. (Becky)

When editing our voice overs me and Tayler had initially decided that we wanted to use a male voice because we thought it would be most effective and practical for our horror genre to have deep vocals narrating; it would sound creepy and spooky, so we did attempt practicing using "Deeper vocals" as shown below, however when trying it on our voice overs we came to the conclusion that it wasn't really the sound we were looking for and also didn't really fit to the story of our film so we rejected this idea. The male voice vocal effective did not sound as realistic as we wanted it to sound. The voice we wish to use is a voice that would communicate well with audience viewers to intice them. We want a voice over that'd almost send shivers down spines. We then came across a vocal effect we felt fit perfectly named "Hellium breath" also shown below. This was perfect and exactly what we were looking for; Hellium breath had a higher pitch of voice and the laugh we recorded to place at the very end of our teaser trailer sounded exactly like a child voice so it was easily mistaken to believe we used an actual child to record with us. This fortunately saved us a lot of time, and bringing a child into school wouldn't have been most appropraite and could have been difficult dealing with time schedules.