Have you ever watched a horror movie and pressed mute on the remote because it was too scary? Well the sound affects us tremendously in all situations and especially when we lose our self in a film. When 'Lights Out' (our student animation film) was nearly finished I and watched it over and over I didn't think we had created very exiting movie. Something was clearly missing, and I didn't realize it was the sound until it was added. Working so long with only with the images, I was used to watching the film without sound.

After we created the final clip for the film we sent the film to our sound guy who worked over a week on it. In that time I didn't ask for any previews or samples of what he had done. When our sound guy had completed his work, and I watched the movie for the first time, it was like I was watching a whole other movie. Sound truly adds a lot of feelings to a film and should never be underestimated. In future projects I will definitely focus more on including the sound production earlier in the project. We were really lucky this time to have all the sound made in just over a week, and I won't take the chance of not having any sound next time.