I decided to insert sound effects into our film opening sequence to make it more professional and to ensure that all of the effects were edited correctly to fit with the footage and so they corresponded well with the sound track that we had previously decided on as a group.
I decided to work from the beginning of the clip so I could decide where sound effects needed to be inserted to improve the film opening. The first scene shows flickers of fire and static appear on the screen numerous times which I believed would look even more effective if paired with some sound effects in order to emphasise their importance to the storyline. After deciding this, I then went onto YouTube and looked into different sound effects to try and find ones that were of the high quality and that would fit well. Once I found the right clips I downloaded them and imported them into Final Cut Pro.
Once I had inserted the clips into the correct place within the sequence I came across a slight problem. All of the fire clips sounded exactly the same as I had used the same clip of the recording for each time the fire was shown. This made it very repetitive and therefore it didn't sound or look professional. To fix this I removed all of the fire sound effects and choose three more short clips from the original clip to insert but from three totally different sections of the sound effect so they sounded different.
Finally I had to adjust the sound levels for each sound effect because some seemed to be very loud whereas others were quieter. This made the whole scene sound very disproportional which wasn't the effect we was going for so I went back to each individual sound clip and adjusted the sound so that it not only fitted well with the other sound clips and soundtrack but also the footage that it had to match.
Evaluation
I think that the sound effects that I have edited and inserted into our film opening sequence are of high quality and they fit well with the footage they are paired with. Although I faced a few problems, as mentioned above, I think I overcame them well and now the sound effects work well and are of a good variety that they no longer sound repetitive. I felt it was very important that the sound effects sounded as realistic as possible because if they sounded artificial then it would of brought the quality of the whole film opening down which was something I did not want to happen. One problem that I had to overcome that was not mentioned above was to find the correct sound effect for the door falling down. I had to find an effect that sounded the same material as the wood we used as the majority of the effects were metal doors and this did not sound right. After researching I eventually found a sound effect suitable to the material of the door we used in our film opening.
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