Sound Ideas

In my opinion I think that the sound in a film is vital to creating the right theme and atmosphere  whether it’s diegetic or non diegetic. As we were planning our thriller we all knew that the sound would play a core part for building anxiety and tension which is what we wanted to achieve. Here I have listed all of the different sounds we used in our thriller opening and have put each sound clip on. 

This soundtrack is the first sound that the audience will hear in the film, however it is the last sound that we decided to put into the film as we were debating on whether or not to even put non diegetic sound in before the radio voice over comes on. We wanted something subtle that would unsettle the audience; the track is called ‘Asthenia’  which we thought would fit perfectly at the start. The word itself means lack of strength and energy, this reflects on what our victim character would be feeling as a hostage. The start of the song is very disorientated and has muffled voices, we thought that this was good to use as it contrasts with the victim's emotions and what they're going through.

In the middle of the thriller opening we wanted just a normal radio playing however we wanted the song that came on to have a meaning so that the audience would have a slight suspicion in opposition to a random pointless song. We used the song 'Psycho Killer' by Talking Heads which we chose as it is ironic, this is because the serial killer is a 'Psycho Killer', however the audience don’t actually know that yet. 

Whilst we were editing we had to put in diegetic sounds, this included the tuning of the radio. Whilst we were searching for a suitable sound on Youtube we finally found one that we thought was realistic and would make a professional effect. We also found a static radio sound effect which we put on at the same time and overlapped them, this was so that the news report would sound like it was on the radio and not just a voice over. 

The main soundtrack that we decided to use in our thriller is the soundtrack from the Saw series. We spent a lot of time on YouTube again trying to find a track that would fit our film perfectly. In spite of that whilst  we were watching the film ‘Saw’ in class we were inspired by the soundtrack. Towards the end of the track the tune does crescendo becoming very dramatic and intense which we all grew to like the more we listened to it and we found that it fit our film quite well.