Itty Bitty things (bits & bobs)

Sounds

I managed to find some realistic free soundclips from http://www.soundsnap.com/, this being my job for an editing session.

I got a light buzzing sound for our first clip, a faint dripping water sound that can be turned up on the dripping water clip, a man screaming in pain for when Matt walks past a new victim and a general scary background sound full of bangs and echoes. The light buzzing sound proved unsucessful as it was unrealistic, so we will just use a buzz sound from one of the test shots of the lights. The dripping water sound worked after turning it up to absolute maximum volume. The male scream we tried to use on the slamming of the door but it didn't sound right, almost too comical, whilst the banging sounds sounded like patting water so we decided against using these 2 sounds in our final sequence.

Credits

In an editing session on my own I decided I did not like the content of the credits that appeared and felt these could be made better or more film-like.

Originally it started with 'directed by...' then 'edited by...' then 'produced by', whereas it is more conventional to begin along the lines of 'a film by...' then 'produced by...' then 'directed by...'. 'Edited by...' is not usually used in an opening sequence.

Also, the original credits had our 3 full names but this seemed a bit too straight forward.

I noticed alot of films had a film company and a production company to fill the first 2 credits so I made 2 up. I came up with the film company name 'Live Wire' to match the opening credit shot of the light turning on. "A film by Live Wire" sounded like a decent opening, not taking too much away from the atmosphere but adding to the anchorage.

After this I felt it was important to include all our names in opening credits still, but not in such a straight forward way, so for the production company I created the false partnership of 'Wall & Bayliss' (the second names of me and Shaun respectively), based in a group in-joke with both mine and Shaun's older brothers having worked on the same media project 3 years ago. I decided the phrase, "A Wall & Bayliss Production" worked well following on from the first credit, appearing around some cracks in a wall in a disjointed way.

This left one credit left, and having not included Jack yet and him having probably done most of the actual camerawork on shoots, we went for a simple "directed by Jack Downes" to appear alongside the dripping water on the third credit scene.

After this the film starts with a montage of clips showing the character waking up in the chair, and we felt this a mysterious and suitable time to introduce the 2 actor names in a faded kind of style one after the other in opposite corners of the screen in which the victims head dominates. These actor names were "Robert Demont" and "Matthew Doyle". The unclarity of which of the actors is shown at this point, and the fact there is only one character when 2 actor names are shown add to the mystery and enigma of the scene.

The 2 minute sequence then follows ending on either an image of the door with the hand, or simply fading to black, both of which will reveal the title of the film. We are still yet to decide on this title, which is the final thing I have to do in this blog post.

Title Ideas

- Guest
- The Guests
- The Host
- Host
- Blue Room
- The Chair
- Hot Seat
- Cast Away
- Cast
- Act
- The Act
- The Order
- Order
- The List
- Guest List

Hopefully, Jack & Shaun will have some more ideas because I do not particularly like many of these...