Sound Ideas

I chose this area to research and look into as I know the effect that sound can have on an audience particularly in a horror film. The diegetic or non-diegetic sound in a horror film can control the mood of the audience and alter their feelings. The may be: worried, intrigued, relaxed, suspicious and a range of others.

Our horror film is based around the theme of children and therefore I believe that we should use some music that would be associated with kids. A nursery rhyme for example. We gained some ideas from Insidious and here in an example of the music that is used in that film to give us inspiration.

     

Our title sequence features a young girl dreaming whilst asleep. The camera will show the girl asleep but it was also enter her dream and show us what she is dreaming of. I thought that because she is sleeping, I would choose a nursery rhyme which is 'Hush little baby' and I think this good be a very effective piece of sound for our sequence. This piece of sound would be the one that we would be most likely to use so I have checked if there are any copyright issues and the producer is happy for people to use the music as shown here.

           

This next piece that I have chosen would be very relevant as it represents the sound of a child's toy or alarm clock. This is perfect for our scene as the girl is asleep so the sound would relate closely to the events on screen whilst making the audience feel very uneasy which is the ideal outcome for us as directors and producers of the sequence. I would however only use the first 25 seconds of this piece as the rest would not be need as it gets faster than we would like.

In class we discussed how we could incorporate some diegetic sound into the sequence and we were all agreed that we should use dialect from the main character (Eboni's sister). I suggested that it would create a rather sinister effect for the audience if the character could sing to herself or speak to herself to hint to the audience that maybe something from an outside world was connecting to her. We have also been offered the opportunity to use a boom for the Mac's in order to introduce some more diegetic sound so we will look into this and see what we like.