music and sound research

Music and Sound research

Through researching on YouTube and video websites, we found together as a group a couple of songs that would be good for our Two minute opening. We decided to choose an overall theme song, this song will be the main song. On top of this song we can add effects such as wind or footsteps.

This is our first choice: scary/haunted music.

This piece of music would be very ideal for our opening. The effect of the slow tempo would build tension. As the piece goes on more instruments are added, this suits our introduction because the old man is getting closer and closer to the girl. The louder instruments randomly occur making it very on edge.

Walking sound effect

This sound effect is very useful to our filming because when we did our practise filming it was hard to hear the sound of footsteps so and as a group we think footsteps almost built tension. The viewer will want to know who they belong to. It almost every horror film footsteps are always used.

Wind sound effect

The use of the wind sound effect is stereotypical of the horror genre. This is good because It almost forces our opening two mins to be in the horror genre. We wanted the stalking of the school girl to be very gloomy. The wind emphasises the atmosphere.

Train horns sound effect

Our setting is located near a train station so the sound effect of train horns is vital. 

Heavy breathing sound effect

The sound of heavy breathing suggests that the girl is vulnerable as she is out of breath. It creates a lot of tension because the audience know that she is struggling. Also if she decides to hide the loud breathing noise won't be very helpful - this is also building tension.

Wind sound effect
The use of the wind sound effect is stereotypical of the horror genre. This is good because it almost forces our opening two mins to be in the horror genre. We wanted the stalking of the schoolgirl to be very gloomy. The wind emphasises the and atmosphere.

Background music
We also decided to use background music when Cath puts her headphones in, we wanted a song that she is listening to, to come on to show that she is in their own world and clueless to what is about to happen. This moment is also very stereotypical of many teenagers as it is typical that they listen to music. 

Heavy breathing sound effect
The sound of heavy breathing suggests that the girl is vulnerable as she is out of breath. It creates a lot of tension because the audience know that she is struggling. Also if she decides to hide the loud breathing noise won't be very helpful - this is also building tension.

Another effect that we might include in our film opening is a girl begging and screaming, this would show that our female character is the victim and emphasise tension. It also portray's her as very vulnerable as she is begging him to let her go.

Train horns sound effect

The alley way that we use in our film opening is located next to the train station, therefore we want to emphasise the train horns sound effect, we think that this is a good way to create tension.