Sound Testing

For our sound in the opening 2 minutes, as a group we came to a decision to include a lullaby to help complement the eerie mood and atmosphere. I came up with lyrics after listening to classic horror lullaby's whilst incorporating our narrative. 

Firstly, we arranged to meet a group of keen singers from year 7 at Weald of Kent Grammar to record a lullaby for our horror themed opening.  We took the group to the music block at our school, where we found a free recording studio. We informed the group of the lyrics and the way in which we wanted the rhythm and beat to sound. 

We decided to use six different girls who were aged 12. We thought that this was appropriate because of their pitch and tone of voice which created an eerie atmosphere. As well as this, the age group used was appropriate to the narrative of young female victims to show their vulnerability

We chose to do a song to a lullaby tune which often referred to the classic lullaby "Hush little baby". As a group, we decided to do it to this theme as it is a stereotypically horror themed song. To make it less stereotypical and to avoid any copyright laws we ensured to create our own lyrics. Together the tune of this classic song and the voice of young girls, we successfully creating suspense. 

We planned to use a microphone recorder, unfortunately this was not available on the day so we improvised and used a high-tech phone. To our surprise it came out clear without background sounds. Therefore we kept this sound footage instead of re-recording with a microphone.