Blog Post #51- Score Usage in Night Time Outside Scene

 As discussed in my voiceovers blog, the voiceovers were included to make the scene make more sense to the audience. Since the scene now makes sense to the audience I needed to add something to make the scene more appealing and entertaining to the audience which made me get the idea to add score to the scene.

The score that I decided to use was a song by the band Radiohead known as "Karma Police". I used the instrumental for this song and the reason that this song was chosen was because I feel like the vibe of the song matched the environment of the scene which would appeal to the audience and it would fit better than score such as suspenseful score. The version of the song that I used was the instrumental version of the song. My reasoning behind using the instrumental for the song instead of the normal song is because the instrumental does not have any lyrics. What this then does is that the audiences attention won't be grabbed by the lyrics of the song and the attention of the audience will still be focused on the dialogue that is being thought about by Alex. When the scene ends, I made the song fade out to make the transition to the new scene smoother and more appealing to the audience. This makes it more smoother because if the song just stops instantly it may sound weird to the audience which can lower the overall satisfaction with the film.

To add the score to my film, I first needed to go on to YouTube and screen record the instrumental version of Karma Police. After I did this, I went on to iMovie and added the clip into my film with only the audio present. With the audio now being within my film I was able to cut some parts of the audio and move it around my film to see where it would fit in the most at. I made sure that the song covered the whole thought process scene because that is what I originally intended.