War of the Worlds - Edit Stage 4

After recording some sound effects I decided to strip back some of the sounds as I wasnt happy with how they worked. So this meant that I had to start building up the layer once again.

I went with the main sounds again and thought I would start of with my new recordings of foot steps and went through and lined all these up. Started with Tom cruise and decided that I wanted to make sure I lined these up and was happy. With the part when he is crawling backwards behind the sofa I had a very quite foot step to show his hand and to add more to the rustle that I plan on adding. I then went through and did the same proces to Racheals footstep. then when she spins round once running over to Tom I added in a skidding noise of the feet. I thought this worked well as wasnt too sure on how to do with that section but this seemed to work well.

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To add a bit more texture and depth I went through a similar process to add in russtle noises to resemble the movement of their clothes and the sneak around. I started very subtly adding in the sounds to when Racheal crawls along. I think this works well as they would make some sounds as crawling along but nothing too loud and over powering.

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When the Probe was reversing out of the house I wanted to try and add something else to symbolise the difference of motion. I decided to just use the same sounds but increase the pitch so that it was slightly higher and different to the other sounds.

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I wanted to create more tension in the scene in which the probe encounters the mirror so decided i would add in a bass to help intensify this. I did this on soundtrack pro by inserting a soundwave at a low frequencey and then using the volume to gradually increase and decrease the volume. Therefore the first time the Probe would look around the mirror would be intesified then the second time when looks around the side of the mirror then it would intesify once again.

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I thought something was still missing and decided that I wanted to add something else to the probe when it is intense. In the end I decided to add in another layer of the Probe but increase the level of reverb so the original piano noise was alhmost unrecognisable. I think this worked well and helped just add a little something extra to the mix that wasnt anything distracting from the previous sounds but could tell was something else there underneath.