Sound

Creating sound for this opening sequence had to a well thought out process. When creating a Horror film the realism of the sound connotes a better understanding of what's happening and why.

As group we planned initially to create a all garage band theme tune. However after a few trials and experimenting we choose to combine mixture of recorded music with some sounds created using Apple Mac Garage Band software. It enabled use to blend the two together, giving us a great conventional horror theme tune. We created a clear Non diegetic sound which connotes isolation and vulnerability, The sound of wind passing threw a tunnel with no one around adds to the tension built at the beginning. As the main character in the film continues to go about his vandalism we capture a lower level of Non diegetic sound, the cross fading between ambient and a low level of percussion sound(wind). We've captured the sound to fit well with the character, when he's vandalising and when he's vulnerable we've change the level of crescendo. When the character goes to investigate to what happened we have chosen to slowly but steadily increase the tempo at which the shots are being shown. Before the character goes we use a diegetic sound to emphasise the 'Bang'. The 'Bang' sound connotes clear frustration and panic across the characters face. As we build up to the finale we unravel a diegetic sound (breathing) combined with a tension building diegetic sound. A high pitch using strings and a source of percussion instrument. At the point of the character entering the room the crescendo of the music is at it's highest. The chase uses diegetic sound of the cannibal character and also Non diegetic sound of the CCTV surveillance camera effect. All together the sound creates and adds the tension of the opening sequence.