Sound testing

For our sound in the opening 2 minutes, as a group we came to a decision to have a lullaby. We felt that this would help complement the eerie mood and atmosphere.

 

Firstly, we arranged to meet a group of keen singers from year 7 at Weald of Kent Grammar School in order to record a lullaby for our horror themed opening.  We took the group to the music block, where we found a free recording studio. We informed the group of the lyrics and the way in which we wanted the tune to sound. 

We decided to use six different girls who were aged 12. This, we thought was appropriate, as their pitch and tone of voice would help to create the eerie atmosphere that we were aimed to create for the audience. As well as this, the age group used was appropriate to the narrative of young female victims to show the vulnerability of young girls being victimised by a male protagonist. 

We chose to do a song to a lullaby tune which often referred to the classic lullaby "Hush little baby". As a group, we came to the conclusion we wanted to do it with a similar theme, as it is a stereotypically horror themed song, being the same tune.To make it less stereotypical and to avoid any copyright laws we ensured to create our own lyrics. Together the tune of this classic song and the voice of young girls, we successfully creating suspense. 

We planned to use a microphone recorder, unfortunately this was not available on the day so we improvised and used a high-tech phone. To our surprise it came out clear without background sounds. Therefor we kept this sound footage instead of re-recording with a microphone.
The use of the phone, as it was available had a very positive and successful outcome and allowed us to record the final sound a lot further forward in preparation.