24.) Pump up the jam- Sound

 Helloo!! Welcome back or welcome to my blog! In this post, I will be covering one of THE MOST important aspects of our film opener... the sound! As I have prefaced in my previous post, my project path has completely 360'ed because I have decided to join forces with my old group. 

First, let's rewind. This idea of joining forces as a group was introduced to me and Nahomy by Phi and Mariana. They expressed to us that their old group members had troubles with staying on task and acting. With this dilemma, we of course agreed to be actors in their film. After some thought, we both figured it would be most proactive to just join their group completely rather than just be actors, so we did! Relating back to the relevance of this blog post, the way in which Phi and Mariana pitched this idea was a big reason as to why we took it up. When they were painting the picture of the new idea, they set the scene by describing what the film would be like in addition to Ribs by Lorde playing in the background. As soon as I heard this, I was in. Ribs is song surrounding friendship, nostalgia, and change... it was perfect.

To revise their previous film plan which heavily included dialogue, we decided that it would be best for our film to showcase Ribs in the background all throughout the two minutes. On the down side, this song is about two minutes longer than the length our opener should be, therefore, we have to condense and cut the music to showcase it's meaningful lyrics while also staying in the 2-minute time frame. As a group, we have discussed which parts of the song will be most meaningful in the sprit of our film, carefully choosing lyrics that fit in well with what our audience will see on screen. Our editor Mariana, has chopped that audio using Capcut to cut out less meaningful or unnecessary parts.

Mariana's sound mixing

With this, we demonstrate a mix of non-diegetic sound and diegetic sound. For our beginning scenes, the music will fade in as characters are seen jamming out to Ribs in the car. Mariana's character Vale is seen turning up the radio to emphasize this. We use sound mixing here to show the song fading in, volume increasing, as Vale adjusts the volume in the car. However, for the rest of the scenes, for example, packing boxes to move, gas station scene, slumber party, etc... characters will not be listening music in their world, instead the music is only heard by our audience as they see characters mouthing conversation and laughing.

Vale turning up the music (Example of diegetic sound)