Sound and Music

After searching through many copyright free websites such as,
http://www.creativecommons.org.audio/
http://www.ccmixter.org/
http://www.copyleft-music.com/
http://www.audiojungle.net/
http://www.on-holdmusic.co.uk/

We still hadn't found the perfect sound to fit with our film. We then found out we could use garage band, which is an application on the Macs. We sat down with Rob who knows how to use the garage band application thoroughly, and showed him our film and explained to him what we wanted. We decided it would be easier to have Rob put the sound together as we had never used the application before. We decided on a 'heartbeat' sound to begin the music with to make the audiences heartbeat beat faster therefore making them feel tense. Then when the antagonist hit the protagonist, long drawn out strings were added. We did this as it is a common code and convention from real media products such as Halloween. We chose the music to sound like this as it appeals to the type of audience that watches horror films. Also, the audience that watches horrors expects to hear music similar to the one that we have used. We chose not to go against this expectation in order to not confuse the audience.
During the filming process there are some scenes we had to film again due to sound. Such as when the camera was too far away in one of the school scenes. We wouldn't have had to re film if we had a boom mic but as we don't, re filming was essential. We could have dubbed over, but as we weren't used to this process we thought the best idea was to re film.