Editing Journal- Day 2

Continuing  our editing process, as a group we researched Copyright free music( royalty free music) which we could use as a song over our piece. 

It was important that the music which we found suited our piece and when it is inserted into our time line and played in our film opening that the music worked well and didn't spoilt the overall idea of the film opening.

 We needed the music to be as effective as possible so that it wasn't ruining either the dialogue or it simply just didn't match what we were trying to get across to the audience. 

Eventually after listening to many copyright free songs on the Internet we came across this one song which we thought would fit our piece perfectly as it wasn't too sad or too happy but was simply in the middle of the two and we thought we would finalise our decision and try playing it over the top of our piece without putting it into our time line. 

As a group we decided on the music and then inserted it into our time line on final cut pro.

http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/3    = this is a link to the website which we got the music from.

This is a screenshot from the website.

This is a screen shot of the music which we chose.

We then inserted the song after downloading it onto our time line in "final cut pro". We then had to render this song otherwise it would not have sounded good.

We then had to cut the music in order to stop it overshadowing the phone call. We did this by cutting the music in certain places when the phone call began and also by just lowering the sound of the music slightly so that you could still hear the music but very faintly. We thought this was important as we did not want the music affecting the phone call especially with dialogue but still wanted the music faintly in the background of the phone call as we wanted to sustain the continuity of the music throughout our film opening.

To do this we had to click on the sound in the specific place.

And then lower the sound with the bar at the top of the image below so that the music could still be heard over the phone call (dialogue).