Adding Sound to a silent film

I added sound to a silent film

Shotcut, Pixabay.com, and a shotgun mic

I found an audio of someone walking on tile and synced each step to the character, I then lowered the gain amount by -17db and increased it by one each time he stepped closer to the camera to make it sound like he was getting closer.

I did a little bit of research about the scene it's heavily stylized, and while it talks about being rural the theme of isolation convinced me to add a more country night vibe, I went with this audio that had frog chirps that I thought worked nicely since the intruder opened the window.

I increased the music volume during moments of tension and decreased it when things calmed down to make it more dynamic with the scene.

This was a little tricky as without sound I wasn't able to tell when the sheets actually made noise so I had to re-watch it quite a few times, but I eventually got it using some Foley techniques with blankets. After that it was just a matter of making the clothing movement sound natural.

The girl in the footage doesn't scream the whole time so making it so that the audio would seem natural was a bit tricky I interpreted it as her initially screaming and stopping when the struggle begins and then screaming when she begins to fail to defend herself. I did this by adding a quick initial scream that changed in pitch to simulate being caught off guard and then adding in a pregnant woman screaming to showcase the horror of what she was experiencing I also dampened the footage for the moment when we cut to another room of men waking up to it.