We needed to look at various non diegetic sounds in which we could use in the background of our film opening. We need to ensure it has the right effect on our audience, we need them to feel eerie worried and scared through just hearing the non diegetic sound. Our aim is to be able to play our opening and without watching just listening be able to clearly tell the genre of the film. As our genre is Horror, through research using the Internet and from watching various horror genre openings it appears the most effective use of non diegetic music is for it to be a mixture of both high and low pitch and a slow tempo. Different movies for example 'Halloween' (1978) have a unique and personal soundtrack, the music for Halloween is a mixture of both high and low pitch and is a slow tempo creating a scary atmosphere, the 'Theme tune' has now become a famous horror genre soundtrack so when choosing our non diegetic sound we need to ensure it is powerful and very effective so we will follow the guidelines of both 'Halloween' with the high and low pitch sounds in a slow tempo and also 'A nightmare on elm street' which also follows these guidelines.
Bellow are the links of the non diegetic music for both 'Halloween' (1978) and 'A nightmare or elm street' (1984).
A nightmare on elm street (1984)
This piece of music fits the horror genre perfectly it creates a very eerie and worrying effect due to the main high pitch with slow tempo but also including random placed low pitch non diegetic sound, This piece of music is highly effective and sets the atmophere correctly for a Horror genre, when choosing the piece of non diegetic music we will aim for it to be effective like this piece of music we need it to create a scary worrying and fearful atmosphere, we need the audience to be scared by not even watching the opening just listening to the music, we need them to be able to shut their eyes and easily be able to tell the genre of out opening without looking, this piece of non diegetic sound does that.
Halloween (1978)
This non diegetic soundtrack is also a highly successful piece of horror genre sound. It also includes use of high pitch slow tempo which creates a worrying frightening atmosphere to the audience, this is what i need my piece of non diegetic sound to do in my opening I need to scare my audience just through them hearing the music.
From analysing these two famous horror genre soundtracks I now have a clearer understanding of what my piece of non diegetic sound needs to include, it seems the best way to create a fearful atmosphere is through using high pitch and slow tempo music with occasional random low pitch sounds. This will create the effect I need on my audience it will leave them scared and worried and fear the 'Ransom Ripper', this is what we need we need the audience to clearly understand and know the genre through just hearing the non diegetic sound. The music needs to scare the audience it needs to make them fear the stalker character.
To choose from various Royalty free music I used a site called incompetech.com which had a huge variety of free sounds and soundtracks that i could possibly use for the non diegetic soundtrack of our horror genre film opening.
We spent time listening to various soundtracks for the horror genre and picked out a few which we felt would fit our film opening well and create the correct effect (eerie, fearful) on our audience. We picked 4 that we felt were good and correct for our film and then analysed each one mentioning the good and bad points, I did this as the non diegetic sound of a film opening is very important it could make or break our opening so it needed to be correct and suit our opening, music is very important in creating atmosphere in a film so we needed to ensure we chose the correct non diegetic sound to use.
Post by: Will Howlett & Alex Cockburn
A nightmare on elm street (1984)
This piece of music fits the horror genre perfectly it creates a very eerie and worrying effect due to the main high pitch with slow tempo but also including random placed low pitch non diegetic sound, This piece of music is highly effective and sets the atmophere correctly for a Horror genre, when choosing the piece of non diegetic music we will aim for it to be effective like this piece of music we need it to create a scary worrying and fearful atmosphere, we need the audience to be scared by not even watching the opening just listening to the music, we need them to be able to shut their eyes and easily be able to tell the genre of out opening without looking, this piece of non diegetic sound does that.
Halloween (1978)
This non diegetic soundtrack is also a highly successful piece of horror genre sound. It also includes use of high pitch slow tempo which creates a worrying frightening atmosphere to the audience, this is what i need my piece of non diegetic sound to do in my opening I need to scare my audience just through them hearing the music.
From analysing these two famous horror genre soundtracks I now have a clearer understanding of what my piece of non diegetic sound needs to include, it seems the best way to create a fearful atmosphere is through using high pitch and slow tempo music with occasional random low pitch sounds. This will create the effect I need on my audience it will leave them scared and worried and fear the 'Ransom Ripper', this is what we need we need the audience to clearly understand and know the genre through just hearing the non diegetic sound. The music needs to scare the audience it needs to make them fear the stalker character.
To choose from various Royalty free music I used a site called incompetech.com which had a huge variety of free sounds and soundtracks that i could possibly use for the non diegetic soundtrack of our horror genre film opening.
We spent time listening to various soundtracks for the horror genre and picked out a few which we felt would fit our film opening well and create the correct effect (eerie, fearful) on our audience. We picked 4 that we felt were good and correct for our film and then analysed each one mentioning the good and bad points, I did this as the non diegetic sound of a film opening is very important it could make or break our opening so it needed to be correct and suit our opening, music is very important in creating atmosphere in a film so we needed to ensure we chose the correct non diegetic sound to use.
Post by: Will Howlett & Alex Cockburn
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