Preproduction: Sounds

          During production my group hopes to record some ambient sound since this is hard to recreate artificially. Luckily we will be recording outside, this will give us the opportunity to capture some noises such as the wind rustling the tree branches or the footsteps of our two characters. The footsteps may need to be recreated during post production depending on how loud we want the steps to be, and if we change our mind on the shots used to show the characters walking. I want the sound for this project to add authenticity to our opening, and I think that using real life ambient sound or background sound would be much easier than recording it in post production.

          As far as dialogue, I am sure we will have to record the majority of the conversations between the characters later on in the project. Even if the characters voices could be heard during the rough cut, the wind and other noises might take away from the characters discussions. While Josie and I are not planning on recording much dialogue for our opening sequence, we do have a few humorous lines that are important to the scenes. These lines pertain to our main character, Brittany, the Stalker in the film is not going to speak at all to add some mystery to this character and to make shooting easier overall. There are some on-screen sounds however that may need to be individually captured, like the sound of the locker smacking the Stalker in the head or the notification noises that originate from Brittany's phone. Basically, the way we have our film set up the most significant sounds will be recorded after shooting (typical for most films). Josie and I are so excited for the next step in our project, we start shooting "Look Who's Stalking?" tomorrow (let's hope we get it all done)!