Portfolio Project: Audio

Audio is a key component in filmmaking, as it enhances the plot, produces profound emotions, and creates a world that audiences can engage with. Audio such as music often impacts viewers emotionally, creating tension, suspense, or deep emotions. In a film, the audio often goes further in the storytelling than any visuals. In my film opening, The Seventh Lie, the audio is an indication of danger for the audience to feel afraid of what might happen next.

After the establishing shot of the home, we will show a close up shot of the mothers hand playing a classical song on her record player. She will slowly place the vinyl on the base, then place the needle carefully as soft music begins to play. Creating an uncanny mood, during the credit scene my partner and I will create a sequence of framed family photos paired with the classical music the mother had begun to play. Through sudden shifts in mood, we will quickly place unsettling photos of Janus, paired with intense and heightening music, opposing the previous lighthearted tone of the classical music. This will instill fear in the audience, and make them aware of the danger that Janus poses onto the family.

In addition to the music, intended to add depth to the thriller genre, we will also include diagetic sounds such as chirping birds, footsteps, and conversations at the dinner table, to add a sense of realism to the opening. We want the story to feel realistic, as if something as scary as this could happen to anyone. These sounds will be created using foley, such as recording our feet walking across a wooden floor, and conversations will be recorded using mini microphones attached to the characters costumes so the quality of the dialogue sound will be perfect.