Sound Use For The Bird Watcher

 I believe sound is extremely crucial to any movie and how a viewer feels about it so today I will going through the thoughts behind the sounds used and even the source of where I got it from.

To first mention the source of where I got all my sounds from I used Pixabay. I primarily thought that I would have to venture out a lot further to get the sounds I desired, although going through Pixabay for about 20 minutes was just enough to find each audio needed.

What I thought I was going to have to do is something like when I completed my podcast: Tower Talks. It was a Clash Royale based podcast so a lot of the sounds I wanted were not available on Pixabay. To be completely honest I don't completely remember how I got the audios onto Adobe. What I do remember is that I took them off of YouTube, recorded the audio on my MacBook, then transferred the recording of the audio onto Adobe.

Most of the sounds used, if not all, are all creepier, tension-inducing sounds to help portray the conventions of a thriller movie. For example there a slight classic sound used during the opening credits when the birds fly across the screen of the title card. It's like the classic dun-dun-dun. 

Another sound is used when Eric the bird watcher leaves the house. It is a quick, rising sound that ends right as he shuts the door and then it cuts to the new setting of him in the forest. I added this to help represent the danger that Eric is getting himself into as he enters the forest, however obviously unknowingly.

A musical sequence I used very frequently are stings. Stings were helpful in helping me show a dramatic moment that will either soon come or to help signify importance of something. For example, I used a sting on the "An Hour Later" black screen or when I used a sting when the camera closes in on the rock that Eric just passed. This helps to show significance later in the movie when Eric trips on it.

To advocate for making this an actual bird watcher film, I had to add some ambient sounds of birds. For example, when Eric sees a bird through his binoculars there is a bird chirping audio added.

The last sound I had used for the movie was gradual tension. I felt there was too much silence throughout the movie so I wondered if there was any sound I could use which could help build tension in the movie but also break any silence. I found a perfect gradual chaos sound on Pixabay that was around a minute and 30 seconds which I fit right into my movie.

Below is a picture with all of the audio circled in purple. This shows how much sound, other than the audio of the clips themselves, went into the entire movie.