Using GarageBand to make a soundtrack to 'Identity'

These are some screen shot of our work on Garageband:
Having watched the opening to the movie 'Identity' for the first three minutes, without the sound, we wrote down notes explaining the types of footage and images that were on the screen and what times they appeared. With this information we used GarageBand to make appropriate sound to fit with the atmosphere we were trying to portray. Concentrating on type of sound that thrillers typically use, the aim was to create a sense to atmosphere that related to the themes involved in this opening. We chose music that built tension, added suspense and intensified key moments in the opening, in order to make the opening make more sense and to create the right impression.We used mainly non-diegetic sound, so the audience were aware it was added afterwards, as well as diegetic sound such as thunder and a tape recording. Our aim was to keep the music at the beginning fairly low-key and quiet, which built up and intensified as the opening persisted. We felt that this was a good way of creating atmosphere that worked well with the footage. The main problem we encountered was the accuracy of the timing, as it was difficult to ensure that the a certain type of sound played when it appeared on screen, so in our thriller opening this has made us more aware to pay more attention to make sure this isn't an issue. We felt that we chose music that had low beats and that fitted in with the conventions of thriller music. However, the music didn't always work with the images on the screen which is something we could improve on.
Then as feedback we played our soundtrack to the class, as the 3 minute clip of the movie was played, there was mixed feedback as we started our clip from the wrong point and it ended up asynchronous and hardly made sense unfortunately.

Having done this task it allowed us to think about the different types of sound that are included in films, in order to add variation in our own work:

Diegetic sound: when it is visible to the audience where the source of sound is coming from, e.g. guns, cars etc.
Non-diegetic sound: sound that has been added in e.g. soundtrack, narration
Ambient sound: background noise
asynchronous sound: sound that is out of sync with image
character theme: different sound is played when a character comes onto screen
dubbing: different language edited ontop
empathetic: matches the mood the characters feeling
location sound: sound that fits with the location
sound bridge: music that links one scene to the next