Experimental Sound - Southern Guns (Short Film)

Although sound is definitely not my strongest asset, I wanted to improve it and I felt that the best way to do that would to be to implement my strength of sketch making and try to focus a lot more on the sound side. I decided to make this film called Southern Guns which is just a light hearted sketch of two men having a wild west stand off, using their fingers as hand guns. The reason I named it what I did was because it was filmed in the southern side of the country but they still shows signs of the old wild west fighting. I also tried to work on visual effects in this project which was very different but I think I pulled it off quite well for a first time of using effects.

There were a few different ways in which I recorded the sound for this film. All of the sound that was recorded during the filming never made the final cut, instead I wanted to make the soundtrack the most dominant thing in the film. I then found sounds online for the sounds of the guns and also re-recorded the sounds of the runaway cowboy's screams as he ran off on a different day in a quiet room so the screams were as clear quality as they could be. The final technique I used was to do with editing a sound clip. The sound that is played right before the sniper shot is taken is same sound as the actual sniper being fired but just reversed and so it ends up in this kind of build up sound of tension. 

Overall I was really proud of this project, I think visually the film looked good but more so I had a lot of great feedback about the sound in particular on the project.