Music and Sound Effects

We have already blogged about our voiceover, which lasts approximately half of the opening, and the other half is going to be tension-building, conventional thriller music. What will be different about our music to other groups' is that ours will have a faster paced atmosphere to it, because we have decided to go straight into the action with our opening.
We have enlisted the help of a Year 11 music student to show us how to use GarageBand properly, because although we managed to make a decent soundtrack to our preliminary task, we knew that it wasn't really of a very high standard, which is what we need for our coursework.
We decided that adding a sound effect of a phone ringing whilst the titles are coming up works much better than just cutting straight into the voiceover speaking, so a phone now rings four times before the voice comes in, which I think works much better.
I also think that there should be some sort of emphasis when the match-on-action occurs, to make it obvious to the audience that there has been a change in what is happening on screen, rather than just really bad continuity.
Overall, I think if our music turns out well and matches what is happening on screen, and the voiceover sounds good too, then our film should be pretty good. Of course, if there is also really good continuity and the rest of it goes well too, then we will have a very good film, but we will have to try very hard for that to happen.