Soundtrack

I began work on the ongoing soundtrack for the trailer. I used Audacity to do this, a music software which allows me to crop and edit sounds before exporting it as an MP3. I used the following sounds from Clip Art:
- torture in the gallows – this is the main bulk of the soundtrack which I added other sounds to
- helicopter low – a sound relating to wartime
- war fireworks – another sound to set the scene of wartime & for dramatic impact

I also downloaded the original trailer and converted it into an audio file. Using Audacity I then cropped the soundtrack several times to create lots of individual quotes from the original film which I felt were most important. I used these in my final soundtrack.

The ongoing sound of ‘torture in the gallows’ is a very eerie sound which I thought very appropriate for my film trailer. It includes a low whirring sound and screams at regular intervals which depicts the horror of war and its pain as I would want it to for realism in my trailer. The phrase “are you saying that ore than half of my men will be killed?” along with the helicopter noise sets the scene gradually fading out. Further on I used the sound of an explosion for added drama, again relating to the film genre. To add to the mysterious effect I wished to give to the trailer I incorporated the quote “where in heavens name are they?” and following this a viewpoint which was controversial during the war, quoting “miserable cowards”.

I am very pleased with my soundtrack overall and just need to bring everything together in a sequence :)