Influences of Music

Music is a very important part of our film, because we have gone down a schizophrenia route. We can control how our film goes through music and easily manipulate our audience to believe the film. Music can change the tension and the overall feel of our movie. Music is also a huge contributor to making a movie scary. If you try and watch a scary film without music you won’t find it scary at all. If you try and watch the movie with sound but no video it’s still very scary.  

A good example of music being used to manipulate the audience is the film Insidious. Insidious used violins to jump the audience and make them scared. When the camera is panning around the house at the start, if their was no music it wouldn't be scary at all. They added in sharp violins as a sound sting to make us jump when there is something hiding on screen.

Below is a video which shows that music can change the whole atmoshpere of a film. This is a crime thriller with a laugh track over the top. When watching this you dont really pay attention and get the feel of the thriller.

 

Our production needs to have a successful piece of music that really portrays the mood and feeling we want. The piece can’t make the film look cheap and tacky. Tom Williams in our group has asked us if he can make the music himself so we have Tom making our music piece. This will take long but it can resolve copyright issues.

Once we find the perfect piece of music, there are many techniques we can use to further enhance the tension of our film, for example if we were to have some kind of jumpy scene we could slowly increase in volume over time leading up to the scene. We could try muting the volume right before an important scene and then bring the music at a louder volume to make the audience scared. Our group has come up with a lot of ideas that we can implement into our music piece.