Sound design.

Today, I have inserted the final sounds to my movie. Firstly, I downloaded a free MP3 file from a website I found online (which was a clip from Doctor who called 'Tick Tock'). I chose this soundtrack as it features two young children singing a creepy/eerie nursery rhyme which seemed to fit quite well with the main characters of my film: I saved the sound file I wanted onto my memory stick which I inserted into the Mac I am working on at school, when I did this; a box appeared showing the contents of my memory stick where I simply dragged the file to my desktop and dragged it to where I wanted it on iMovie. The duration of the soundtrack only lasts 1 minute 14 seconds, which accompanied with the sound of myself and my friends singing - reached a maximum of 1 minute and 23 seconds, meaning I had 27 seconds of silence. I listened to a variety of 'Music and Sound effects' that are available on iMovie, it took me a while to find sounds that were suitable for the first 20 seconds of the movie - as only the woods are shown here. Eventually, I found some sounds and tried them out - Below are the sound effects used for the first 20 seconds:

For 18 seconds I have used the 'Drone Dark Sound Effect' which creates a deep background noise that accompanies the 20 seconds of 'Heartbeat' which is split between 10 seconds each, when the 'HeartBeat' sound effect stops for 1 second I have inserted a 'sweep motion' which benefits the swish pan effect I used with the camera. Other sounds I have used from the 'Music and Sound effects' on iMovie are:

I have used a discreet background sound with the main 'Tick Tock' song here as although I have faded in the main soundtrack for five seconds, it stills begins quite loudly and sharply therefore the 'Mystery accents' follows it quite well. When 'Tick tock' stops, the end of the film becomes silent, therefore I have added in extra sound effects - particularly for the jump cuts:

The 'Shuttle landing' is simply smooth crackling sound which avoids the silence I had, also the 'tape' rewinding sound effects is a very fast motion sound which accompanies the fast shot very well.