Main Brief: Research For Music

Music is one of the most important aspects of a horror film as it helps to create a specific atmosphere or mood for the scene. An effective use of music helps to promote a reaction and emotions from an audience. Music also helps to make the film more enjoyable for the audience and helps to enhance and develop the experience that the audience have with the film. Music also helps to highlight specific scenes and parts of films to the audience. It can also help to hint at the audience what is to come.

Psycho:

The Pyscho soundtrack uses string instruments to create a fast, frightening and powerful theme. This theme adds both speed and intensity to the film, creating feelings of excitement and fear from the foreboding sounds. Benard Herrman's striking score manages to strike something primal in the audience, much like John Williams did with the Jaws soundtrack.

The Exorcist:

Mike Oldfield's track "Tubular Bells" was used for The Excorist's soundtrack. The sliced up pieces of orchestral music and the track create the freaky collection of sounds that terrified audiences when the film was originally released.

Music for our Main Brief:

In our main brief, we want to create an atmosphere of tension and excitement like most horror films manage to. We want to start with a calmer tone and build up to the climax of the film where the music will be the most tense. The most powerful piece of music will be used at the end when the audience first see the Entity as it will create a slight jumpscare for the audience and make them realise that they have been introduced to the films antagonist. There is no dialogue in our opening sequence, so we will be using lots of music and sound effects to create the atmosphere. The majority of these sound effects will be non-diegetic as we will have to add them in, however some of the sound effects will be diegetic to make them sound more realistic.