When I was looking for inspiration for the music to use in our
Thriller opening I looked at a variety of film music that I could possibly
blend together to create one soundtrack. I used 'Inception' as the first one I
could use as it is fast paced (as it is an action film) and it builds to a
climax, we want our thriller music to build to a climax as it will show the
tension in the film. There is a slower paced part where the music slows down
and this creates mystery and tension this is important for thrillers to have
because the audience want to be kept in suspense throughout the film and
building it through the music will do so. The other was ‘Gladiator’ and it is
very slow paced which is mesmerising for the audience and is highlighting the
sadness in the music. The full piece is 8 minutes long and it is constantly
changing tempo because there are fast paced action sequences and melancholy
slow paced sections there are parts which are also quite eerie, 4 minutes into
the piece a voice is singing and this is creating an eerie noise that is quite
captivating and indicates the genre of the film because it sounds mysterious which
is immediately associated with thrillers and the sound of the voice is quite
high pitched which almost sounds like eerie, scratching sound related to
thrillers.
The last thriller music I looked at was ‘The Black Swan’-
trailer as the violins create an eerie atmosphere( the high pitched violin) the
low pitched violin which is quite shuddery creates the sense that something bad
will happen and is it leaving you in suspense. The use a sound collage of
people’s voices which is playing whilst an image on the main character is up
and this makes the viewer’s feel as if they are paranoid because of the amount
of noise surrounding them. Towards the end of the music, the violin fades out
and this suggests that the bad things are over, but leaves the viewers in
suspense as they want to know what is over.
I had inspiration from these pieces of music because these
have individual qualities that could really help me create my piece of music as
I need music which is really mysterious and it won't give away too much of the
storyline Therefore I am thinking of using instruments such as pianos and drums
and my pace will be quite slow but will build to this fast pace, due to a
running scene in our thriller, however we are still undecided whether will we
keep that.
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