Editing Drum Beat

When planning our storyboards we decided we didn't want a song playing throughout the establishing shots, but instead a simple drum beat as we thought it was effective without be overly distracting. We also thought it linked in well with our film genre (British Drama) as it had an urban feel.

We used GarageBand to find the drum beat and after listening to many different tracks we found what we were looking for, however, it was too short - so in GarageBand we copied the track several times to make it longer.

We saved the track in GarageBand and then imported it into iMovie by selecting the musical note on the taskbar and then in the saved folder, finding and selecting the track. Once it was imported, we were able to copy the track to fit the duration of the establishing shot; however, we also decided to prolong the track throughout the opening toilet scenes with the main protagonist as well, as we thought the silence in those scenes in comparison with the beat didn't seem right. We were then concerned that the simple drum beat for a duration of roughly 30 seconds would seem repetetive and boring, however after watching it through we decided it flowed well and did not seem monotonous.