Pre-Production: Sound and Music?

What is the Plan for the Sound and Music?

I thought about this after the group discussion. A lot of my group members brought up what type of music that they plan on using in their film opening. At first this concerned me because it felt like I was somehow behind but then I realized that I didn't need music. Considering the gritty realistic vibe that I am going for non-diegetic music would not work well, I mean I am trying to make the opening feel real so adding in music for dramatic effect would clash with the presentation that I am going for.

Sound design will be important for me. To keep up the realism I do plan on using almost all the audio solely from my phone. And if I do add any other sounds in the editing process I will make absolute sure that they sound like they were captured from the phone. Because again having overproduced sound that is too high quality can ruin the presentation of the opening. So from how it looks now there will be little sound design and no music. I am fine with this decision though as they are purposeful and do add to the opening in a positive way.

I will use Davici resolve to edit the opening, as it is the program that I have been using to edit my projects throughout the year so I am familiar with how to edit sound and video quite well with it. To continue on the subject of editing I have an odd way on how I plan to edit the opening together. I don't know if it will work but if it does it will be great. So basically phones have this feature that when you are recording a video there is a way to pause the the video while recording. Essentially with this feature I would be able to edit how the opening flows all from the phone camera. I really want this to work because to me this is how I would imagine the killer to have edited his video. I don't think that this killer recorded a bunch of separate clips of his adventure to murder someone and then went home and neatly edited them together. No, it has to be messier than that, it needs to feel more improvised, and with that feature on the phone it can feel that way. For this to happen that means that I will have to record the whole opening in a day and in one long run basically getting all of my shots in one long segmented take, but if I can do this all before my phone dies I am sure that it will turn out good.

That pause button is what stops the recording, pressing it again continues the recording.

For the recording I might turn down the recording resolution of my camera or put some kind of filter over it to make it look more rough.