Soundtrack

The hardest part for us while editing our film was looking for a soundtrack that would go along with our film opening. We didn't want to use a soundtrack that would contain lyrics in it so we were limited to just instrumentals. It was hard to find one that suited our film opening as some that we found were either too intense or just weren't enough.

At the beginning, we had decided to just use a soundtrack and not have any narration at all. This is shown in our film draft. As you can see it made our opening seem very trailer-like, and made it and for the audience to understand what was going on. The soundtrack we used for that one was Sleeping At Last by Saturn.

We still kept it even after we added a narration but once again the film opening became too dramatic and too trailer-like. Knowing we had to change it our teacher advised us to look for ambient tracks rather than actual instrumentals as they'd help our audience focus more on the diegetic sounds than on the non-diegetic sound.

Due to the addition of the narration we needed sound that would be faded into the background but would still have an impact on the audience. Something that would increase in intensity as the opening played but would not make it too dramatic. So in order to do this each of us decided to look for a soundtrack until we found the best options for ourselves.

After searching around on youtube, Nour and I found this soundtrack.

It was exactly what we were looking for. The sound has just the perfect amount of intensity and sadness we needed and also wasn't taking anyone's attention away from the narration like the previous ones did. I'm glad we found something suitable to the genre of our film opening, it really helped convey the feelings the protagonist felt even better than before. Because of this we are one step closer to finally finishing our film.