Music and Sounds

When creating our music for our trailer we focused mainly on making the audience feel tense and then linking the shots with the music, this generally was used towards the end of the trailer when our shots were faster and much quicker than the start of the trailer. The speed of the shots was very important, when linking the music to match the timing of the shots.
Most of our music was created via garage band the music software provided for us on the Apple Macs. This software was quite easy for us to use and we made sure that we practised creating a practice song.
 For the first part of our trailer we used the music that we created on Garage Band and this mainly consisted of the sounds of clarinets as we both felt that this was very ominous and mysterious sound. The sort of sound you would hear in a thriller, for example the movie 'Taken’. Other sounds that we found to fit the shots were basic sound recordings like, a phone ringing and a dog barking. These were previously recorded and then added into Final Cut Express. This again is used in most thrillers as it convention to have a variety of different sounds. It also intensifies the mood with a varied choice of sounds. We then took advantage of this concept and especially adding in a lot of sound effects for the final hall of our trailer. For example: The shot of the dog barking was a voice over and so was the sound of ‘please don’t hurt me’ made by Harley. These sounds were recorded from an Iphone. Other sound effects for example the pulsing sweep were found via garage band. Most of the sound that you hear at the beginning of the trailer is quite slow based an created on Garage Band mainly using the 'pulsing sweep' this was used to join all the sounds together into one soundtrack. Towards the end of the trailer, we then sped up the sounds and the soundtrack so that it fitted with the fast paced shots. This is something that is very conventional with thrillers, as the music builds up throughout the trailer allowing the audience to understand the narrative, it then speeds up to engage the audience and intensifies the whole trailer just by the loud and fast sound track.

I think that the music worked well, because we varied all the different instruments. My favourite part of the music was the connection between the two types of music in the trailer, we used the pulsing sweep from Garage Band and that then connected all the shots and the music together. It created the scary thrilling atmosphere for the audience. This anticipation worked well for a thriller because in most of the thriller trailers we had researched built up the atmosphere by not only speeding up the shots but by using the music to intensify the mood.

We did have a problem with the music that we only established towards the end, after looking over our work, however this was quickly overcome when we tweaked the sound and found the clicking sound and resolved this problem.