During this time period I recorded some of the sounds I used for my sound piece, such as some water splashing and the wind blowing strongly in the park close to where I live. I then used freesound.org to pick up some sound effects that I could not realistically record with any clarity, such as the sound of the sea and a clear, neat recording of a group of people laughing. Once I had consolidated all of the files I would be using into one project folder, I began working on creating a narrative. Having storyboarded my piece prior to this I felt confident that I had everything I needed, and very few pitfalls actually raised their heads during my work. My only main issue was effectively forming a climax; I could not find a way of making the volume of the wind loud enough to be as oppressive and haunting as I had wanted, and the sound I ended up using to represent the character's last breath was primitive at best. While searching for some ways of ensuring my tense atmosphere came across throughout the rest of my piece, I looked at some horror films to see how they used sound to do the same thing.
The Others, directed by Alejandro Amenábar. The film focuses very strongly on portraying isolation, using the weather to great effect and also making use of silence as a method of building tension. I decided to leave some silence before my character's climactic gasp to allow for further built-up tension.
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