Sound was very important to me in this film project, and I spent a lot of time scripting a voiceover to have underneath the video, to combine both the audio and visual aspects together. But I also wanted to use a lot of natural sounds, the sort of ambient noise that would be present in the outside environments I filmed in. Initially I believed this would be best done by using sounds downloaded online, but I tested out my camera’s audio and found it worked well in capturing exactly what I wanted. This accounts for the most part of the ambient background noise, excepting the hospital sounds at the end of “chapter two”, which I had to source online.

BACKGROUND/AMBIENT SOUNDS-

Above I am splicing the original clip from inside a hospital room I got online into separate shorter pieces, as it had a recurring background sound (like an aggressively loud beep) that I didn’t like, so I marked out all the sections it was heard and cut them out. I was anxious that the end product didn’t sound too jarring or mix-and-match, but luckily it worked perfectly well first time, and I only had to cut the whole clip to the right length and no further editing was necessary.