Thriller Production: Sound

    As music has a massive influence on the feel of a production and the way the audience react to it, it was very important to find the right sound for our thriller production.

    For example, in films such as '28 Days Later' and 'Requiem For A Dream', music is used to signify pinnacle moments in the narrative; reinforcing its importance both to the story and lives of the characters involved. Much of the music that is used in this way usually layers up the instrumentation and crescendos to build tension and suspense within the audience, creating a very foreboding atmosphere.

    As we want our production to be very suspenseful and eerie; we decided that having a full piece of music to accompany the action may not fit our production as it wouldn't create the right atmosphere to go with what is being shown on the screen, as well as also possibly being very distracting.

   Despite this, we still wanted to have some sound in the background - to accompany the diegetic sound - to try and build tension within the audience. This is why we decided to have a drone that constantly crescendos and builds up instrumentation in the background of our production, hopefully creating an eerie and unnerving atmosphere.

    We also decided to add a different sound for when we see our antagonist's face for the first time, hopefully creating a similar feeling of tension in the audience; as well as clearly indicating to the audience that this character is our antagonist.

    By using sound clips from freesound , it eliminated the issue of trying to find non-copyrighted/royalty free music; and also helped us to find sound that fit our mise en scene better than many of the tracks we had originally tried.