4) Sound: Music clips - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOob3ga5EIk
This is the sound we used for the car accident, we had to edit the sound as there is a hint that it hits another car at the end of the clip, so we made the noise more subtle to sound like it had hit a person instead, so in place of a crash it was more subtle with a thumping sound. I feel this was more effective as it sounds very realistic when the screen blacks out and it is suggested that Stephen is hit with some force by the speeding car, in order to have the best quality possible we decided to cut the end off the sound clip as the car sounds like it gets damaged which would not happen so dramatically when hitting a human, also the start of the audio clip was cut as it was prolonged and we needed the clip to be fast, with a sense of a speedy impact. Audiences would not question the noise and whether it was authentic or not as it could not have been made any more realistic than it was, due to us having no budget or the time it would have taken to make it look like Stephen had been hit. Furthermore if the sound and death was more realistic this would have taken our attention away from the rest of the film, so it would not be as up to a high standard in comparison to the car scene.

I also had sound layered into the opening scene and the car scene with the same music throughout without having to change it at any point once we had found the music file that we wanted. However it did take a long time to find the right piece of music and by the time we found our ideal piece it had nearly taken us three hours of continuous searching across two computers, listening to a variety of different sounds across numerous websites which had royalty free sound clips on with a huge amount of variety to pick from. We also encountered problems whilst trying to find the correct music for the credits, as we needed music that was mysterious and solemn. We did find the perfect piece and put it in throughout the credits, however at the end of the credits there was a problem as when the credits ended the music ended abruptly whilst in mid flow, therefore instead of changing the music which we thought was too important to lose, we made the duration of the credits last longer by slowing down the pace at which the credits rolled. This allowed us to end the music at just the right time for maximum effect on the audience without making it look like we blatantly dragged out the credits.

Here are some of the websites we looked at:
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml
However I felt that this site was the the best as the standard of music was better:
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
Here are some sound clips we considered:
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=final+count
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=exciting+trailer
This is the sound file we used for the opening scenes of our final film:
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=spider+eyes