Adding sound to my trailer

Over the past week I have been adding the sound onto my trailer which is one of the last things me and my partner needed to do.
To start with, me and my partner browsed the internet and some websites to look for some non-copyright music that we could use in our film. However, after a while of searching websites such as http://freeplaymusic.com/ we couldn't find any music that would be effective in our trailer.
The music we did decide on was created by one of our peers and friends, Joe Perrins who is excellent player of the piano. We told him that we wanted the sound on our trailer to be upbeat and have a jolly, happy sound to it as our trailer is that of a comedic tone. So, we got him to just create some chords on the piano and we recorded this with a sound recorder. We recorded a few different types of sound and then transferred the sounds by USB to the computer so we could listen intently and decide which one we thought would work best with the trailer. In the end, we came to a conclusion on which sound we were going to use on our trailer and I'm really happy with it. The main sound in my trailer is conventional to the type of genre my trailer is because it is upbeat and lures the audience in because it creates a happy atmosphere that makes the audience want to know what the song is playing played for, therefore making them watch the trailer and being pursuaded to go and watch the film in the cinema.


There are a few other sound effects that me and my partner chose to use on our trailer.

This is the heartbeat sound we use towards the end of our teaser trailer as the two girls, Miranda and Millie and running up the castlist to see if they have got the part in the show. We wanted to use the heartbeat because it creases a tense atmosphere and builds up the tension as the audience will want to know which girl has got the main part in the film as this is what the rest of the trailer builds up to. The heartbeat sound effect also allows for the pace to slow down at the end so that the narrative of the end of the trailer can be brought across to the audience and so that they know what's going on because the beginning of the trailer starts of slow and then the camera shots and edits begin to pick up pace as the narration is established and I think it is effective to bring the trailer back round to the slow pace at the end again, like the beginning, so that the message of the teaser trailer is determined by the audience and so that they can really establish what is going on towards the end of the trailer because if the trailer just carried on at a fast pace throughout, then the audience may not have a clue what the narrative storyline of the trailer actually is and so wont be lured in to go and watch the film at the cinemas so I think the use of the heartbeat sound effect allows for the contrast in the fast pace and the slow pace so that the audience really grasps the ending of the trailer and so want to go and see it in the cinema because that is the main outcome that me and my partner want for this trailer


Finally, the last bit of sound we used in our trailer comes right at the start of the trailer and is encorporated in our ident. Our production company is called 'Shooting Star Productions' and the ident involves those words coming down from the sky and then a shooting star flying over the sky. When we were playing our finished film back, we realised that the effect of the shooting star wasn't as great as it could be because it made no noise when it flew across so once again, we spent some time browsing through internet and websites to find some suitable 'whooshing' sound effects that would emphasis the use of the shooting star. We went onto YouTube and searched for 'shooting star sound effects' and we finally found one that we thought would fit in with our ident. I think the use of this sound effect really emphasises the shooting star as it flies across the sky and therefore shows what our production company is all about. I think the sound effect is very effective in that it makes the star stand out during the ident and therefore makes the finish production of the teaser trailer better as a whole

I found adding sound to my trailer suprisingly easy. All I had to do was convert the youtube videos into MP3 files using a youtube converter website such as http://www.video2mp3.net/ and then once the video was in My Documents, I could just go onto the software I was using to make my trailer, encorporate the sound into the programme and then just drag it down onto the 'soundtrack' part of the timeline. Then, I could cut and extend the piece of sound and move it around my timeline as much as I liked to get in the right part of the trailer and going at the right speed. I could even make it longer or shorter using the cutting tool to make sure that the sound was added to the trailer in the professional way. Through this, I feel we have added some very effective sound onto our trailer that fits in very well with the narrative of the trailer and therefore contributes to it being a professional finished product.