Sound Research

For my thriller, I want a eerie yet fast pace music type, but one that will keep the audience on their toes and keep the scene together. As my narrative contains police work, I want my music choices to match, otherwise my piece could falter if I do not find the right music to fit. 
This music choice is taken from the well known movie Donnie Darko, I really like the spooky effect it has, the low, but fast paced undertone, is complimented by the high pitched metalic sounds and makes the piece sound dark and different. This is the type of music I want to include in my thriller, as I find that I will be able to work well with a music choice other than low tones.




Another music choice I liked was the American Horror Story theme tune. This particular music choice is very weird, and contains different sound effects that definitely contribute to the genre of the film. If I was to listen to this music choice without knowing where it is from, this music choice would scare me and make me anxious. There is a repetitive cracking sound throughout the song, that contrasts against the low sounds that also follow all the way through the piece. The harsh tones used help to create a mysterious and eery feel to the song, which is something I want to use in my thriller.

 


I like this music choice as it is very fast pace and would help keep my thriller intriguing and the audience interested, it is very thriller based, which is what is needed in my piece, and contains low and high tones.

 

This music choice is copyright free which means I could use this in my final piece. I like this piece because it also contains cracky, high pitched noises as well as dark, low tones, which is perfect for my thriller. The piece is quite slow however, but I could edit this and maybe even mix two pieces of music together when editing my final piece in order to get the best possible sound for my thriller. 



As well as musical choices, I would also like to include non diegetic sounds such as news reports of the crime, from multiple people, and a voice mail from the victim at the time of her death. I would like to make these pieces as professional as possible, and would use the suitable equipment available to achieve this. This will add to the suspense and could illicit narrative enigma questions from the audience which is what I want. To create the news reporter sound effects I will use effects available on editing software, with the already recorded script I will have provided. With the voicemail, I will record the sound with a professional mic in order to get the clearest version of the sound as possible.