planning sound

Planning sound

Why sound is important in thrillers

Sound in thrillers is very important to create suspense and to set a scene/mood of what the director wants. For example if you want to create a mood of fear you have fast past, strong beats, and in a minor key. If you want excitement you want it in a major key as major represents a happy mood. There are different types of sound in films as one being Diegetic and one being Non-Diegetic. There are also others but these are the main ones.

 

For the opening sequence we are going to use a range or sounds and three of these are; The opening, The phone and A door opening.

For the opening sequence we will be using a song by John Murphy called ‘In a heart beat’. This song is slow and builds up and it creates suspension and tension as all the other instruments come in and the chords that they play are Minor, which creates fear. This song lets the audience know that something bad is going to happen and because it is over the main character they know that something is going to happen to her. This creates a relationship with the audience and the character and shares their emotions and feelings.

The second sound that we will have is a phone ringing; this is for the character when she answers the phone. We are using this because we want the phone to be disabled so that the no actually calls during he recording. And then we need a sound for when the phone is disconnected to show that the phone line has been cut.

The third sound we will be using is a creaking door as we want there to be an opening door sound but it wont be on camera and the character will be in a different room meaning that we would not be able to her the sound in real life. This door opening tells the audience that someone is entering the house, which will create suspense as they are wondering what is going to happen next.