Sound.

I asked a good friend of mine from home, Sam Benjafield, to create the sound for my animation as he is a talented student at Ravensbourne, London studying Music Production for Media. He specialises in creating music scores for films of all kinds but particularly likes dark creepy film scores and so it seemed a perfect fit. He also said he needed more diversity in his showreel and an animation would be perfect as all the other films he has done are live action. He has worked with me before in first year creating some music for one of my idents so I knew he'd do a good job. 
Here is a previous film with a music score created by him.

Sam likes to work to the footage to best fit the music to what is happening in the story. This meant that I had to send him either the finished animation before he could start sound, or part animatic with finished animation elements so that he could see how the story moves. 


He sent the music the other day to see what I thought about it and if it needed changing. I thought it sounded really good, however I thought it needed to sound a bit more dramatic and sad as the beginning sounded too happy. I also asked him to extend it by about 10 seconds to include the closing credits at the end. 

He sent me the finished sound today and it sounds great.