Planning- Music and Sound

Music is 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 like in 'fear factor' from audio network, which makes the pace seem very fast and dramatic.

We searched for non-copyrighted sites for soundtrack; we found two very good sites: SoundCloud and Audio Network. 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 found some slow mechanical sounds for the opening establishing shot, although it was slow it still created tension and anticipation for something bad to happen. The sound we used was 'stakeout' from audio network.

We also wanted to use mechanical, scratching 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 believe that the girls are in danger. The sound we used was a section taken from 'Death blade' from audio network.
We cut parts of 'death blade' out that we didn't need and just used the repetitive, metalic sounding music to create tension.

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 'phobia ',  from audio network combined with 'fear factor'.

We also needed to find some dramatic sound stings. We decided that we would use parts of different music we had found such as the fast, high pitched violin sound which was taken from 'hell on earth' from audio network.

We downloaded sound effects from sound bible as well as using some of the ones on pinnacle. We used them in some cases to add emphasis to dramatic events such as when Tovia is grabbed in the car. However we needed less a dramatic sounds when Tovia stabs him with a pen.

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 sound bridge to the end of the trailer to create mystery and enigmas 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, which made it sound wrong. 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 didn’t have to do any changes to the sound as it fitted with Tovia screaming when she is being dragged down the stairs.