Sound Added To Holding Pattern

Sound was added to Holding Pattern in an interesting way. Initially I was extremely unsure about the sound, because the script did not have any spoken words, and I wanted the visual images to speak for themselves.

Whilst I felt this worked, as the whole visual film was made first without the aid sound (apart from background sound), I still felt that a soundtrack of some sort did need to be added to take the film to effectively the next dimension.
The sound was created using a few instruments, mainly a keyboard, and a variety of tunes and melodic sounds were created, and I composed and played these with thoughts to the visual footage in mind. A number of different pieces of music were played and recorded, and then placed onto the computer.

The music was then added to adobe premier and then with trial and error, was added to the timeline in coherence with the visual counterparts. The music that was originally recorded was a lot longer in length than was needed for the visual clips, so the sound had to be shortened to be added to the film.

There were 5 different types of music that I felt the film needed;

• Introduction music

• Daydreaming effect music

• Reality loneliness music

• Reality more upbeat music with other people

• Ending music

The different types of music work well within these different parts of the film, I also feel they add to the visual images to alter the mood for the different scenes, in the way I want the audience to feel.