#69 Planning: The Audio Breakdown

    Hey everyone, today I will be talking about how I’ve been spending time looking at the sound for my project, and it’s honestly wild how much audio can change the whole mood of a scene. I didn’t realize how many tiny choices go into making something feel right until I started digging into it again. Since it’s been a while, I felt a little out of practice with timing and figuring out where certain sounds should go.

    To get back into the flow, I watched a bunch of videos on sound design and how other creators use audio to shape their projects. Seeing different examples really opened up new ideas for me and helped me think about how I want the sound in my own film to come across. It definitely gave me fresh inspiration for my project for me to tell my group members.

    Watching this video honestly opened up a whole new world of sound ideas for my project. The creator shows how tiny audio details things you barely even notice at first can completely shift the mood of a scene. It gave me so many ideas for how I can make certain moments in my trailer feel way more tense and unsettling.

    The creepy tones and subtle noises they demonstrated would fit perfectly in the parts of my film where the audience is supposed to feel on edge. For example, in the moment where I disappear in the trailer, adding sounds like the ones in this video would make that scene hit so much harder. It really showed me how sound can take a suspenseful moment and make it feel even more intense.

    Overall, this video helped me think differently about how I want to use audio not just as background noise, but as something that actually shapes the emotion of the scene.

    To start off, this video ended up being one of the most helpful ones I’ve watched. It really showed me how much sound can completely change the feeling of a scene. Seeing the difference between a clip with no audio and the same clip with full sound design made everything make so much more sense to me. It helped me understand how to use sound in my own project and gave me a way clearer idea of how I want to build the atmosphere in my trailer.