Editing : FinalCut, Lesson 10, Garage Band

Garage Band

In today's lesson Sonny and I finalised our piece of music on Garage Band for our opening sequence and put it into Final Cut to fit with our clips. We thought that the music was synchronous to the clips as the music changes exactly when the happy and sinister flashbacks start and finish. I was also unsure whether to include a bang of some sort at the end of the sinister flashbacks during the point of view shot where James hits Sarah and falls to the floor, in the end Sonny and I decided that it would be better to just leave the sinister music as it is, the chord of music finishes as 'IMPOSTER' crackles onto the screen.

Below is a screen grab of all the different effects that are possible on Garage Band, From drums to strings, and once you click that option as shown below you have a variety of different styles for that instrument. The ones highlighted in blue, ' Rock/Blues, Kits, and Single' are the effects that we chose to add into our opening sequence music. For the opening sequence itself we have a plain piano playing, quite softly and quite as not much is happening in these clips, i.e. where Sarah is crying into the mirror and washing out the sink.































For the happy flashbacks, we chose a more upbeat piano option, the music is loader and slightly faster to be synchronous to the clips helping create a happy feel toward the couple, as well as being able to see that they are happy.

During the slow motion clip of where Sarah and James are walking along and Sarah turns around to argue to James, this is where we changed the music to follow on the sinister scenes. We added in some slow electric guitars and a slowed the bass on the drums down, this helped create a dark atmosphere mirroring the idea of James being a dark shadow as well as him committing quite a dark crime of domestic violence.

Below is a screen grab of our final piece of music for our opening sequence the top two lines are the drums and piano for the beginning and the happy flashbacks and then below the bottom three lines consisting of 2 guitars and a violin are where the sinister flashbacks start. We chose drums and a grand piano for the beginning and the happy flashbacks as they are quite upbeat instruments that play happy sounds to the ear, and whilst watching the happy flashbacks the audience are able to get a happy feel toward the couple, as if they are in a happy relationship with each other. Then we chose two different styles of electric guitars, playing quite low notes, helping to create a dark feel along with the violin playing minor cords typically used in horror or thriller movies at tense times to create a dark and erey feel. We thought this would apply to our opening sequence, which it did as it mirrors the dark shadow of James and crime that he is committing.