WOTW varnishing

Today I re-edited my clip by adding a shimmering, buzzing sound  called Moonlight Shimmer in Logic on top of the drone I had used on the alien to make it seem more realistic and alive and not just one drone sound. 
As the note was not a continuous one, I dragged it along in the piano roll mode so that it would now be continuous and I could edit it in Soundtrack Pro.

A screenshot of dragging the midi along in Piano Roll it was continuous.

I bounced the single track and put in into Soundtrack Pro and edited the volume so it sounded like it was getting closer or farther away to create a sense of space in the edit.

In this shot, it illustrates the use of volume I created to create presence and a space for the alien probe.

For the part where the camera closes up on the aliens light pulsations, I took out the synth noise I had used before and got a synthesised humming sound off of freesounds.com to use so it sounded like you could hear the inner workings of the alien's cogs, humming away. I faded the noise in and out with volume as that part is only brief but I also increased the pitch in Pitch Shifter II to make the hum more high-pitched as the original file was quiet low and couldn't be heard over the drone sound I already had.

Screenshot of the sound I used.

I increased the pitch in Pitch Shifter II to make it audible over the drone and faded it in with volume.

I also lowered the volume of some of the foley that I used as it sounded a bit too loud in the Void and as I had discussed with Ron, the fact that the people would be trying to be quiet in order to hide from the alien is an important one to consider in sound for film.