Soundtrack Research- Felicity

         Soundtrack Research for the opening to our film

From Shannon's research on Thriller film soundtracks, our group have gathered ideas on what type of music and sounds we want to include in the opening to our film.

We have experimented with different music and sounds on programmes such as 'garageband' and 'logic x pro', to create drones and background noise to fit with each scene. We want our thriller to have strong elements of excitement and suspense so the music will help create this and add to the atmospheric feel of the opening.

Using different instruments and different tracks, we experimented with different sounds and noises to fit different parts of our opening.
 We decided not to use garageband and went on youtube:
For our music, we found 3 different soundtracks on youtube which were copyright free and got others opinions on them.
1.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sSVQrnvyIk

2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWaNW-aYhVY

3.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vguMSFwxQ

A lot of people said they preferred the first piece of music as it fitted more with the thriller genre and created more suspense. The other two did not conform as much to the Thriller genre and we were told that it may not fit with the opening to our film. When it came to the editing process, we did some experimenting and found that number 1 and 3 actually matched each other well and created great suspense and tension within our opening. We were told that when the music started to play, the build up helped create tension and a slight uncomfortableness for the audience members which is what we were trying to achieve.

The music really improved that part of our opening and made the clip much more intense to watch. The gradual build up helps conform to the typical thriller opening and allowed the audience to be more frightened and concerned to what was about to happen next.