Wednesday 3 October 2012

Music and Sound effects ideas

Music can be very significant in trailers as they get across to the audience what type of genre the trailer is. The sound helps build up tension and add emotion to trailers such as horror, as the sound becomes fast paced and more dramatic the audience immediately know that something bad is going to happen.  Looking at chase scenes in many horror and thriller films we noticed that the music in the background is not necessarily instrumental and has a deep and dramatic drum beat as though it is the heart beating, which makes the pace seem very fast and dramatic.

An example of sound in a horror trailer is ‘Captivity’ which is one of the trailers which inspired us when looking for/ finding sound for our trailer. We quite liked the drum based sounds which got louder and quieter in places  and  the pace of the sounds got faster and slower creating suspense and mystery of what could happen to the victims.
We searched for non-copyrighted sites for soundtrack; we found two very good sites: FindSounds.com and AudioNetwork.com. We were looking for a range of sounds which we could use for different sections of the trailer as each part told a different story. We first looked for a slow drumbeat sound for the beginning of the scene where Rizwana is tied up on a chair is a cupboard room. This is so that the sound is quite relaxed and we wanted it to get quite dramatic with more drum based sounds that begin to get louder and quicker building up tension and suspense to show what is going to happen to Rizwana. Also for the title’s in between the trailers we wanted to in-cooperate sounds of slow drum based sound  to add suspense.  The sound we used was 'Hell on earth‘, from Audionetwork.com
We also wanted to use buzzing sound effects similar to the ones used in the opening of Se7en. We quite liked the buzzing sounds of when the killer sticks the victim’s photos from newspapers which makes it quite nerving and disturbing for the audience as it would make them think / believe that the girls are in danger. The sound we used was ‘Death blade', from Audionetwork.com. We decided to use cut parts of the sound so that the metal and scraping sound fit in with when the Killer is sticking photo's of the victims, this is so that it makes the scene look realistic as though the scraping sounds are being made by the Killer himself.  

For the cemetery scene of Tovia running, we wanted to add some chase music which would make Tovia running more dramatic and will help the audience understand that she is running away from the killer. The sound will also add mystery and enigma’s as the audience will be left wondering why Tovia is running and who is this mystery person chasing her.  The sound we used was ‘Fear Factor, from Audionetwork.com. We cut the 'Fear factor' sound and used different sections to speed up the tension as Tovia is running through the cemetery, as we wanted to create a climax, making the audince wonder what could possibly happen to Tovia.

The screams I came across before were quite short and didn't create the suspense we wanted.  We wanted a long scream which will act as a soundbridge to the end of the trailer to create mystery and engimas of what could possibly be happening to the female victim. When trying to cut the sounds an bring them to together so that the screaming sound is longer, it made the screaming sound like a seagal which was inappropriate. It was very difficult trying to find a scream effect that would fit into out trailer, I came across a scream sound from findsounds.com and the sound that I thought best fitted our trailer was the female scream. This was much more appropriate and we didint have todo any changes to the sound as it fitted with Tovia screaming when she is being dragged down the stairs. 

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