For music, Poppy and I didn't want to use sounds from iMovie HD, because they are not really suitable for our movie, so we looked on "Proscores" which has a selection of good sounds which we are going to include in our film, and ones which aren't so good and we won't use those in our film.
Poppy and I both lowered the sounds on our clips which are diegetic sounds (which are the sounds made on camera for example the sound of the gravel when Vanessa is walking on it), and put in non-diegetic sounds, which are sounds outside the movie (background music).
This is the music levels which we made higher and lower to add better effects, and make it so that the audience will be more on edge.
[Clips of music we don't like and ones we do like, and why.]
For the titles Poppy and I decided we wanted to use a simple text. I think that the smiple font is nice yet effective, because it is not too over the top.For effect, we wanted to have something similar to "The Grudge" when it has a transition from one colour to another.Poppy and I used the programme "After effects" to create our titles, we tried to make similar titles to "The Grudge" but not with the bloody background or with any hair in, we just wanted a transition from one colour to the other.So, Poppy and I decided on having a black background with white text going from white into red and fading into the black at a good speed.We then made each title by repeating the process, and got the same effect for each title, when we had done these titles, we made it into a movie and rendered it so it could go into our final movie on iMovie.
[Picture/video clip of one title and print screen]
For our main title we were looking for a font that would also look simple yet effective, we found one but it didn't seem right and it looked really tacky and boring, Poppy and I decided to look at all the other fonts and we found one which was perfect it was called 'Helvetica'. It has a cracked effect at the bottom and top of the letters.We used a similar effect for our main title, but this time we wanted it to have texture.We added a stone effect to the layer, but had a black background, the text had the stone texture behind it, which looked really good I though.We edited the brightness and contrast of the stone so that it looked better. The main title had the same effect as the smaller ones, so it went from the stone texture background into a blood red colour, and faded into the black background. It looks really simple, but very effective.
Here is the stone on a layer on "After Effects" before we added the text and transition.
Here is one title, that Poppy and I created. I really like it, and think it looks good.
