sound in horrors

When making our thriller we need to consider what the expected sound would be in the right parts of our thriller, for this we will use a non copy righted website to choose a piece of music to reflect what is happening in our horror thriller opening.

For example when we see the establishing shot of the house at the beginning of the piece the sound will be low and long sounds until we find the girl sitting tied up in the basement where the music will become higher and shorter.

In this extract from the conjuring I will analyse the type of sound we hear at each bit to understand why/ where different parts sounds would be used.

At the start of this extract we hear silence; I think silence is used to heighten the tension as well as to hear the diagetic sound in the scene. As soon as something significant happens in the scene (in this case when the girl bumps into the door causing her to fall down the stairs) we see that the sound became high and short to shock the audience. As she hits the floor of the cellar and is lying on the floor the sound then becomes low pitched and longer notes which is trying to cause the audience tensions to build and prepare them for something scary to happen. The sound as she is looking around the room is eerie and again mid sounding notes which are long winded, yet as soon as the ball drops and bounces along the floor again we hear the high pitch, short sounds. As the scene develops and the light flickers out and she's in panic the sound continues to be high pitched- reflective upon her emotions. As she pulls herself together and finds the matches which to her would be a form of safety she sound then goes back into low pitched long winded sounds, but again when some claps behind her she would panic which reflects the music turning back into a high pitched short sound. 

For our thriller I think this research will be helpful for us when we go to choose which music to use as we need music which would reflect upon how the victim in the thriller is feeling at the specific time. For example when the girl is strapped up and panicking we will need the sound to be high pitched and short, yet when she is getting ready for her date the sound should either be silent of low as this is reflective of the idea that something bad is about to happen, preparing the audience.