Film Progression 3 - Continuity Sounds

I became increasingly aware that, to make the continuity editing of my film work, I should layer constant sound over the top - to continue nuance and stature. I knew that, in order to change a sense of time and location, the background noise should change and have different tones. 

For Scene 1, I used the sound of water to exaggerate the fact that they were by a lake and in nature. By not breaking the naturally recorded noise at all, means that – though the sound differs little from frame to frame – the viewer can be slightly more involved and integrated into the world of the diegesis. This means that the continuity editing is backed up by sound and, of course, the two aspects should work together. My timeline ending up looking like this: 

For Scene 2A, I decided that, as this was a scene of love and lust, that the sounds of the woods should be based around the already existent sounds of leaves and then additional birdsongs. The birdsong connoting a sense of freeness and liberality – both of which Charlotte feels by escaping convention and seeing her lover in the woods. I made sure that the layers of this noise did not overpower the speech of the characters by playing around with the volume of the music. My timeline ending up looking like this, for this section: 

For Scene 2B, I knew that the sounds needed to be harsh and dramatic. In continuation with the birdsong of the scene prior, I knew that I wanted to have birds present. However, instead of innocent, happy birdsongs – I chose the sounds of ravens and crows. Traditionally, these denote death, terror and the warning of danger (founded within the Gothic). This kind of danger seemed to fit the content of the scene, as James dies, and Johnson is seemingly the tyrannical patriarchal figure. My timeline ending up looking like this, for this section: