Brief - Sound

Sound during the first 2 minutes of thrillers and how it influenced our thriller.

We will be using sound for the opening of our thriller but will not be using music. When I have watched previous thrillers they generally open with a song and a montage to establish where the thriller is and it portrays what type of thriller it will be, an example of this is The Crazies where it opens to a Johnny Cash songs during a montage establishing the setting and characters. This is ok for a director to use but for our sake we are only making the first 2 minutes so if we use a song it will be more like a music video than it will opening. I have noticed this from previous year 12 thriller opening and this is not what we are trying to create. We will be using Diegetic and non-Diegetic sound though. The Diegetic sound will consist of heavy breathing and non Diegetic will be sound effects to emphasise the past or when the character is going a bit crazy. We will also use a high pitched whistling sound because it creates a feeling of emptiness and makes the audience scared, especially when it stops and then we use sting to make them jump. This is good to use in the first 2 minutes because it gives the audience an impression of what our thriller will be like and will make them tense through out the rest of the film because they know more jumps will be coming.

Here is the Johnny Cash song featured in 'The Crazies' (Dir. Breck Eisner, 2010)

-Bradley Hart