In horror films, the music provides an insight to the audience about how a particular character or set of characters are feeling. This is heavily seen in horror films based on murder. We hear a long mix of screeching sounds whenever a victim is about to be killed right in front of their loved ones, despite the effort of the other victims trying to help or escape.
For our group (AHA) it is a different case whereby our theme is based on found footage. We had researched that Found Footage is a more natural and informal view of telling the base of a story.
Paranormal Activity is a prim and classic example of found footage where parts of the film is seen in first person and this enables more interactivity and experience.
Coming onto the main topic... MUSIC AND SOUND. In Found Footage films, music is NOT an essential part in the film, but can be very USEFUL at times. Sound rather than music has more of a heavy effect on the atmosphere and surrounding. Due to the first person view and the theme, all of the sound is almost natural. These natural sounds consist of banging of doors, intense and prolonged screaming, breaking of objects and loud footsteps. For our opening sequence in the Espero Apartment, we had figured that we need a LOT of different sounds within the opening sequence, but at different parts. Whilst Julia Rose and Sandra Park will be vlogging, there needs to be some sort of eerie sounds in the background, in order to add some verisimilitude in their actions.
I (HASSAN) have found some links to (NCS) Non-Copyright Sounds which will be useful for our horror opening sequence.
http://soundbible.com/tags-horror.html
http://soundbible.com/tags-horror-movie.html
http://soundbible.com/tags-horror.html
http://soundbible.com/tags-horror-movie.html
All 5 of these links, consist of different horror movie sounds which range from squelching, oozing bloody noises to floorboards creaking and high pitch screams. Of course, not all of these will be relevant to our opening sequence, but the advantage of having a number of places to choose from, is the variety we have.
In the famous Espero Apartment, the natural background sounds will be, talking in different tones, closing of doors and also the sound of the camera dropping to the ground. However, these diegetic sounds need to lifted by some non-diegetic sounds. These could be eerie low and high pitch music, different use of instruments and backward supernatural prayers.
For my scene in the horror film, (NEWS REPORTER FOR BBC WORLD) we have come up with an idea to use a visual glitch effect on the tv screen, followed by the sound, which would relate to the distortion and interruption of the news report.
The link above consists of many glitch sound effects, but our aim is to merge a few sounds, creating our own glitch sound effect. It was my idea to have this sound playing whilst the visual glitch effect is in process, on the screen during my news reporting scene.
I was inspired by the glitch effect from General Zod's message in the film, "Man Of Steel".
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