Importing Audio and Planning Music;

Once we had completed all of the video editing, our next stage was to get music for our trailer. After looking at the conventional thriller film trailers, There are a few factors which should be included:

-Starts fairly slow and picks up a fast pace towards the end

-Builds tension and suspense

-Has a base song with different sounds over the top which fit in with each scene or even to show the change in scene

- Thick or thin texture, rather than in the middle (heavy built up sound or creepy, empty sound)

Initially, our first thought was to use a nursery rhyme for the background music as this works well with the idea that the main focus of the film is the baby but also the baby dies in our film, making a nursery rhyme quite un-nerving as we associate nursery rhymes with innocence and happy, healthy babies, showing a contrast and shocking the audience, putting them out of their comfort zone. We thought we could add to this effect by increasing the pace towards the end and also adding other noises to emphasise certain parts of our trailer and the changing between each clip. 

Nursery Rhymes are also within the 'public domain', which means that they do not hold copy right and are free for the public to use. Public domain is usually works whose intellectual priority rights have expired,been forfeited, or are inapplicable. We at first wanted to use the nursery rhyme 'rock-a-bye-baby' but had some difficulties finding this tune without any lyrics which we thought would sound right with our trailer. This then put our plan out of proportion, as we were planning on asking Mat Tuora to put our music together and create our trailer's backing track, seeing as he had done the same for us last year and did it well and to our taste. This then meant that we did not have enough time to ask him to complete the music before the deadline. This then meant that we had to find an alternative, and chose to pick another nursery rhyme and thought that 'twinkle twinkle little star' would be the next best option to create a creepy atmosphere and build tension. 

After this initial idea, we downloaded software which would be simple enough for us our selves to create a soundtrack but good quality and can create accurate and precise outcomes. This was called 'Audacity1.3' This was easy after using Premier pro to use, but our knowledge on music and on getting the right sounds was not quite so good.

Here is the website where I found whether or not the songs we wanted to use were in the public domain or not, it tells us the date also, as the piece of music usually has to be around 120+ old before it can be used copy right free - Public Domain Music

Although, while in the researching process of a version of 'twinkle twinkle little star' we came across a video on Youtube of a creepy, eerie version which would fit very well with our trailer. Although we could not just simply use their music as it had been edited by the person who had posted it. This meant that in order to use their video we must ask them for permission. So we decided to send them a polite e-mail to ask for permission so that we could use the soundtrack for our film trailer. 

As you can see from the message we sent, we said that we would include their name in the credits of our trailer and on our poster. This is a professional way to go about it as then they get credit for creating the piece of music which is what is deserved for creating it. The subject was put as 'Urgent' as we needed a response fairly quick, as we needed to import our audio onto our film trailer as soon as possible. 

We used premier pro to 'import' the audio in to 'audio 2' so that it fits in with our trailer. We then had to 'razor' it to the length of our trailer because the original track was much longer than our trailer. This tool cuts any length of video or audio to the point where you click and then you can delete the section which you do not want to use. 

Here is an clip playing the music which we have put onto our trailer. I have made this video on windows movie maker, purely to demonstrate the audio which we chose to use, but to add audio onto windows movie maker, you have to add pictures or a video to match the length of the song. So I decided to use some more 'proof' pictures taken from our filming process and the magazine shoot etc. I made the pictures black and white to add a 'past' or more old effect, which compliments the audio. I also then had to upload this video on to Youtube in order for me to be able to upload it onto my blog.