Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Soundtrack Research




This piece of music is monotonous and repetitive. It has a little bit of light and shade as some bits of the music are more intense then other bits. I feel that the beginning would create reasonable start for our trailer as it gives an eerie atmosphere however as it repeats throughout it begins to get predictable and slow. This music seems like background music that would not be noticed by the audience.  As our trailer is a horror genre, and as we gathered from our audience questionnaire that music is  important to a horror film, we think that it would not be useful for creating tension. 




This piece of music would be effective for our horror trailer as the beginning has a regular beat such as they often use in horror films to pace out the time when the audience thinks something bad is going to happen. It also has the disturbing metallic interruptions to the beat which grate on your nerves and make the audience feel more anxious. Although after the opening it becomes a little bit too happy until the crescendos begin which have an evil feel.




I feel that this piece of music is quite good but only certain aspects of it as it is more discordant sound and does not really have much rhythm of melody. The rise in sound at the middle of the music creates a feeling of something evil about to happen. This would be scary for the audience and create tension. I don’t think that the buzzing at the beginning is very effective as it is not very dark or frightening. 

4. http://www.audionautix.com/transfers/FO-TheDeadlyYear.mp3


This piece of music fades into the background and there again would not be very effective. I feel that it does not have enough tension or a dramatic combination of notes. I think that it would be more suited to a sad scene in a film rather than a horror trailer which is trying to create scary events and make the audience perturbed. I also think that it would be too slow and dull which would not add anything to our scenes in our trailer.




This music sounds eerie and builds the tension. The background noise of the water trickling sounds like a broken pipe which would be strange and intriguing for the audience. The piano notes are random and erratic which would create an atmosphere of unpredictability. This music could be quite prominent in our trailer and make the audience worry about the jeopardy of the victim’s safety. As the piano notes become more prominent and frequent the events in our trailer could be more dramatic and scary.  




I feel that this piece of music is not very scary and sounds like it would be more effective for a bereavement scene of a film as it sounds like a church organ. I believe that the audience would relate church as being a sanctuary and a safe haven so it would not be useful for our horror trailer. I also think that there are not enough dramatic notes entwined through the music which would make it boring and uninteresting for the audience.  

We think that number 2 and 5 are the best piece of music as they would add the most tension and be more interesting for the audience. As our target audience believes that music is so important we think that it should be something really amazing to help bring our horror trailer together and build a scary atmosphere. Therefore we feel that it would be best if we created our own piece of music as it would be more personal and perfectly suited to our trailer. 

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