This is the final edit of my footage which differs from ‘1st edit’ due to me implementing additional sound into the film. The first piece of sound I added was a clip converted from Youtube titled ‘The Best of 1950’s and 60’s Australian Radio’, this was added in at ‘1 minute 40’ and was a sound clip that originally ran as the intro that prepared and warned listeners for the news. The reason I chose this particular exert was because it added to the ambiguous feel of that particular moment, the motives and the personality of the character on screen is being kept and hidden from the audience and I wanted my soundtrack to convey that ambiguity and a sense of unknown, instead of revealing anything about my character. Secondly, I found that the bit in the audio clip where a very eerie, alien sound rises to an almost inaudible pitch was well timed with the point where Man 2 looks towards the heavens and then back down as her eyes scout around the environment-for a split second it looks as though she is looking for the sound that is coming from the radio, she is looking into the distance and to the sky trying to find the sound coming from its source, as if she wants to see the sound fly and travel.

My next use of sound, this time it was non-diegetic, was again another exert from the radio clip that spawned from an advertisement for a radio show about a ‘quiet stranger’, this sound clip had a suspenseful, archetypal western music score which complemented my setting and set up the tropes I was subverting, the voice in the sound clip I used purposely to comment on the character and suggest comparisons to this unknown, inscrutable ‘quiet stranger’.

My third use of sound, once again non-diegetic was a jingle from an ice-cream advertisement. Apart from using it in the credits and once or twice under the dialogue in my clip, it was most notably used in a section towards the end where Man 2 said ‘Why did you kill that farmer’-though this line was purposefully lost under the music. The reason I made this choice was because I regretted the line, I wanted both the characters to be relatively ‘normal’ people, not mass murderers or criminals, secondly I didn’t want the conflict between the two to be based off any event-I wanted the conflict to be a reaction spawning from there own feelings of frustration and alienation. Thirdly, it adds to the ambiguity of the film, I like the idea of bringing the audience into the action, intimately through narration, and then dragging them away from it and leaving them in the dark at a supposed crucial time in the narrative.

I thought the use of the jingle was also quite interesting because it sounded so fake and fabricated-like the blue plate, Purple Shirt and the orange on colour corrector turned up it adds to the non-natural, slightly ‘off’ feel of the piece. The fact that the song is so fabricated and contrived again is another symbol for both characters (and in some moments the viewers) being far from the truth, everyone is continual being presented only a version of ‘the thing’, the glossy outside layer, rather than ‘the thing’ itself.

*Note: A better upload of this film is on my google drive titled ‘Film for Exhibition’.