Production: Music

  Hey blog, it's me Jenna, welcome back here to tell you about the process of choosing our music. Since we came up with it, I have had this idea in my head, and I can't quite put my finger on where I found it. Ever since then, I have been looking for this certain beat, and I wouldn't say I found the perfect one, but it's definitely the closest. Since I pay for Spotify Premium, I have access to a platform full of free songs and beats. The beat I chose is called Infinitus by Christopher Field and Brand X Music. When I was looking for a beat, all the ones under the mystery genre sounded too spooky or like a horror sound, and I didn't want that because our genre isn't horror. It starts off slow and then moves into a more rapid and sped-up beat. I like this because it gives the illusion of a mystery film. For example, they always start off with a normal story, then boom, a mystery presents itself, and then while the characters are trying to figure out the mystery, it's at a very rapid pace. In my eyes and my group's eyes, it is perfect for what we are looking for. When I was adding the music, it was really loud during the parts where the actors in my film were talking, so I turned it down a bit, and it worked perfectly. My other editing issue with the music is that when the video ended, so did the music, and it ended very abruptly. So to solve the problem of it just cutting out, I had it fade out at the end. Not only did we have a beat playing throughout the entire opening sequence, but there was a part in the beginning with another sound. In the first scene, the main character was overhearing her parents fighting, and she put on her headphones to block out the noise. Since I didn't have people to play the parents because they would only be used in that first scene, I went onto TikTok and found a parents arguing sound and attached that. During this, to create the illusion of putting on her headphones, I also had this sound fade out, so it sounded like once she put the headphones on, she didn't hear the arguing anymore. For both of these sounds, I went onto the app and let the sound play while I screen recorded so I would get a screen recording of my phone and the sound. Once I was in the CapCut app, there was a feature where you could go into your camera roll and click a video to extract the sound from the video. Now I just pasted the sound into my video and don't have the video on my screen. I hope you enjoyed and this is Jenna signing out. See you next blog.