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In this document, I will go into how we edited the sound for our film, showing used sound to enhance the footage and establish the film's atmosphere, adding depth to the story to make it more engaging for viewers.

In our film, we included two classic pop songs: "Talking in your Sleep" by The Romantics and "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. This cheesy 80s music adds an authentic slasher movie vibe to the film, immersing the audience in the suspense of these scenes.

For the use of "Talking in your Sleep", we used it in a scene at the beginning where a character listens to the music through headphones. This was done in the way that the music would sound distant until the character puts the headphones in, which replicates the characters perception of the music. This gradually made the music sound clearer and louder when the headphones were put in, and was done with the Distant audio effect in Premiere Pro.

Lewis sourced some royalty-free horror ambience sound tracks which were placed with the clips to create the ambience in the background. Doing this makes the transitions between the shots sound a lot smoother as it does cancel out some of the sounds, and it also adds depth to the scenes.

We added some sound effects along with the music to create impact for these moments. One of them is a sharp violin note used for a jump scare, matched with the visual to heighten the surprise factor. Another is a foley sound effect which sounds like a twig snap to add realism to the scenes, as we wouldn't have been able to successfully create this sound on set.

"Thriller" is the song we used for the end credits, and it starts of being loud and as the bloopers start playing it gradually becomes quieter so both the blooper audio and the music can be heard still. The background ambience was also made to fade out as the music begins playing.