Sounds

For our thriller opening, we have decided to not use dialogue, this is simply because we wanted to create simplicity and use only a small variety of sounds to create the tension and tone within the piece, however we have already taken into account and want to use the silence to create tension as well within the thriller.

Amongst the silence we have found specific sounds to use which we may not be able to produce completely within the shooting, so as pre-caution we have considered using the sound effect from a website to emphasise the sound chosen, such as: a door opening and closing and the crunching of footsteps on gravel.

For the beginning of our thriller opening we thought of using the 'Creepy door' sound effect from the website Freesound, as shown above. We thought this could be effective simply because when edited into our footage it sets a thriller feel and tone to the opening film sequence before anything is shown on screen, such as our main protagonists. 

A similarity to other thrillers, for instance 'Alice Creed' is another of our sound choices of Ambient sounds to run throughout the two minutes of thriller genre footage. Not only does this example of sound create and build tension but it also creates an eerie and uneasy tone to the film. Although 'The disappearance of Alice Creed' 's sound is higher pitched and faster tempo, the ambient sound we have chosen will still have the same effect as it will be on going and growing in pitch and tempo when needed. An only difference in sound combinations with ours and 'Alice Creed' is that in that film they have the addition of intrusion through non-diegetic and diegetic, creating a sense of realism, which I feel we can take note of with ours. 

A final sound experimentation and idea we had was to combine two different sounds, by layering them. The above 'Thriller Ambient' and a classical piece, either being 'Beethoven- Moonlight sonata'  or 'Chopin- Raindrop prelude'. By doing so, the overall sound created is something of a sinister feel, something that softens the mind of the viewer until they see what is on screen and become disorientated by what they here and the combination of what they see.