As for sounds, Jackie and I came to an agreement that we wanted to keep a song and sound effects on the whole time. We preferred to not do dialogue just because we really did not need it with what our whole film was showing. In the first half of the film, we wanted the tone to be peaceful and calm. We chose the song “Crowded Places” by Banks for this mood. On iMovie, I slowed the song down a little bit to almost give it that slow, suspenseful effect but at the same time still calm and peaceful. However, when the truck pulls into the parking lot thats when the whole mood starts to change. We used the sound effect called “tension and suspense” from iMovie that gave the film a more suspenseful and eerie feel to it. I also slowed it down quite a bit just to give it a more chilling effect. For color correction, we kept the coloring the same throughout the whole first half of the film where the song “Crowded Places” was playing. It was bright and we felt that we did not really need to change the color of it. Although, starting from the shot where the white truck pulls in and the suspenseful music starts, I changed the rest of those shots to a cooler more blue tone to give a grey and darker effect. This would allow the audience to be able to sense that something bad is about to happen.
As shown in this screenshot while editing on iMovie, you can see the crowded spaces audio at the bottom as the thick green bar. The small turtle in the middle shows that I slowed this audio down as well. In the top left hand corner is the audio named “tension and suspense” that I chose from the iMovie sound effects.
These two screenshots are the same shots but at different points in the film. The first shot of the playground was taken from the beginning while the “Crowded Spaces” song was playing and the tone was calm and peaceful. As you can see, the coloring of this shot is brighter and more vibrant. However, in this second shot, this was taken during the second half of the film when the tension and suspense sound effects were playing. The coloring is more grey and dull which adds to the more eerie and suspenseful mood.
The Vanished 