At several points during our film we thought it necessary to add sound effects during editing to make the film more effective and interesting. We wanted to add sound effects when:
-The 'protagonist' is in the bathroom. In this scene, we can still hear the music of the party, although now dulled via editing. The boy is washing his face and, as he looks up, he sees the figure of the murderer in the corner of his eye behind him. As he sees this, the music of the party fades out and we decided to cross fade it out with the sound of a high pitched violins to add suspense coming in. This creates a feeling of fear amongst the audience for the 'protagonists' safety. As he looks behind him to see if he is correct in what he is seeing, he realises there is in fact nobody there. He turns back to face the mirror and shakes his head at his foolishness, the music of the party in the background fading back in to bring the audience and characters back to reality.
-The stabbing scene. As we see the shadows of the protagonist being stabbed by the murderer, the scene then slows and we decided, to enhance the drama and intensity of the scene we would layer a heartbeat sound effect over the top. This we then gradually slowed to represent the young man dying. This was effective in increasing the tension and drama of the scene as it gets the audience fearful of the outcome of the situation and seems to draw out the events of the scene.
We sourced sound effects from various free sound effects websites such as:
-http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
-http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/
And these were perfect as they had many different options for one sound and they were copyright free.
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