Adding Sound and Titles to my Final Task

 After adding in the scenes, and trimming them, to our opening sequence, we got to adding sound and titles to our final task. We began by finding the songs we had previously picked out, when we started the production process, and listened to them to see what they sounded like. We all decided that they would not work as many sounded too jarring, so we looked for new sounds that we liked. We started to perform this task together, but found that we kept getting distracted, so we decided to look for sounds by ourselves and then meet up later. While I was doing so, I found that I had a tough time finding songs that I thought would fit, since many of them did not match up with what I pictured in my head. However, after searching through the depths of YouTube, I eventually found a few options that I thought could work within the opening sequence. But, even after the time I spent searching for sound for the other scenes, such as when the mother is running away from the killer, I still wasn't sure what to put within the scenes where my character, the girl, is going up the stairs and making food. I had no clue what genre the sound should be for this scene, let alone the specific sound for the scene. So, with this in mind, I met up with my other group mates to see what they found. To find out which sounds we liked, we inserted each sound within the opening sequence and agreed on what we liked and didn't like. After much consideration, we decided on the sound for when the title card pops up, however, we thought that it needed something extra. This led to us mixing some of the sounds that we found, which created a very nice sound that worked well with the image we wanted to create. 

    Before we began creating the sound mixing for the title card, however, we made the title card. Just to be clear, throughout the whole process of producing the sound and titles, Juanita shared her screen while Jessica and I advised her on what to do or just put our input in. Juanita created the titles by selecting a black screen in PowerPoint and choosing the font that we wanted. She started in google slides, but found that PowerPoint was easier to use so we switched to PowerPoint. We then had to choose different fonts than originally planned, since we used a different software, and different effects as well. We ended up using the Baskerville font with a 5 pt. shadow and 43% transparency, which ended up looking like this when we completed it:

    With this part of the title process out of the way, we continued adding in sound to our final task. I am not sure if this was done before or after we implemented the title card, but we then added in the sound for the scene where my mom is running away. After the main songs/sounds were added in, we began to add in sound effects, such as the chirping birds after the title card. We also did an overview to see what sounded off, and fixed it. We still have a bit more to do with the sound, such as the sting at the end of the opening sequence, but we plan to finish the opening sequence with time left to finalize any remaining flaws or imperfections. 

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