Today, we needed to add the sound to the film. I found a nice acoustic guitar piece by Jason Shaw on Free Music Archive - A royalty free music website. I had some reservations about putting this in the film as I think it could have been a bit predictable. However it does work well and represent Lola's mannerisms with it being repetitive, and the simple tune relates to her loneliness. I also felt a bit forced to add music throughout the length of the film because of the lack of independently recorded sound. Although Jacob had sync-recorded the speech of Lola on the day of filming as well as some foley, I didn't think it was enough. We only had certain foley sounds, such as the pen writing and the pen lids being taken off. This meant that sounds such as the 'wafting' of the sheet and smoothing down of the blankets were missing. I think that this would have meant there would be an inconsistency throughout the piece and may have caused the audience to become disengaged. To solve this problem, I added the sound on top of the piece up until the part where Lola begins to draw, at this point, I made the music quieter to make the sounds more easily heard. I then asked Jacob to sync the sounds better to the picture as I felt that it needed to be tighter. I think that this works because it highlights the section in which Lola draws - something that we lead on from in our 10 minute piece.
Once we had done this, I had to leave, so I left it up to Hannah and Jacob to burn the film onto the discs I had provided.
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