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  The second major thing we needed to address was the audio and the music. This category is my favorite, if I'm being honest. I have always been in charge of the music and audio for our videos. I simply enjoy the process and love spending time focusing and listening for all the key details. 

  That's what this process is about the key details. Most horror movies would look stupid if they had no audio, comical even. That's why audio is important and why I enjoy it. I started the process like I had done the same all before. I extracted the audios from the clips to see the sound waves that they create and adjust them as needed. That involved cutting a few "go's" out and miscellaneous noise that the camera had picked up. One thing I had to find in particular was laughter. Initially, Britanique and I voiced the laugh, but I found a much better sounding laugh through sound effects. The sound effects were significant for our movie. We had footsteps, city noise, night noise, birds, static, killing noise, etc. These were layers throughout the video. Some sounds also needed amplifying that originated from the video. Such as the water sounds. Once I had extracted them, they needed to be louder than the background noise. 

  I also had to record the doll's song after we had filmed. It was supposed to play in the background. However, the song stopped lining up after editing the clips to meet the time restraint. It was a simple fix. I just recorded the song once and used the same sound to replace it in multiple sections of the movie. After all, the editing of audio was done, the movie felt a lot less tacky and more like a horror film. Now it's time for the finishing touches.  

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