Music

A stong feature of our opening sequence was the music and noise effects. We believe this contributes considerably to a thrilling atmosphere and we wanted to get it perfect. We had to create our own music, this was a challenge at first, we began by drafting some ideas and eventually came to an interesting and natural solution. We decided on using a young girls voice humming to a tune, this reinforced our idea of the villan being childlike and also gave an eerily sweet tone to the scene. This is very much unlike many other films of the same genre but we thought the sweet humming of a child would contradict with the haunting scenes, giving an intriguing twist. This is known as the digetic element of sound as it is clearly not from the original scene.
For our non digectic sounds we have many ideas, these include panting, running footsteps, screams and a heartbeat. Firstly the panting insinuates someone is in panic or worn out, this emphaizes the terror and effort the chractors have gone through. This is also true to the heartbeat and running footsteps. The Screams show terror and shock, this will add to the terrifying atmosphere giving a shock factor to audience. All these sounds are easy to obtain and can be done by us in the classroom.