Sound/music specific to our trailer

As my group and I are planning to add in the sound to our trailer next week, I wanted to research into depth about sound, as I have only briefly looked into it. I thought it would be best to look at sound after we had filmed and edited so I know what we have to work with and we can base our sound around our shots rather than base our shots around the sound.


This is a presentation I found online about sound in horror trailers:

What have I learnt and how will I use this research?

From this research I have learnt that horror trailers attempt to build suspense and tension from the beginning to engage the audience and persuade them to watch the film. I want to consider using sound effects which are on Final Cut Pro X that sound like chimes or doorbells as we have a shot where Maddie answers the door so a doorbell sound could be repeated to build this suspense and engage the audience. Also, I have learnt how high pitched notes make the audience feel tense so I want to consider using a single long and high pitched note for the recognition of the disruption as this will engage the audience as they will be waiting for something to happen.

As a group, we have ideas about our trailer and I think the music should begin slow but still eerie for the normality scene to build up tension. 'The Purge' trailer uses slow calm music at the beginning to relax the audience and then a sudden change in the sound is used to make the audience jump and prepare them for a fast paced trailer. This is something I want to do in our trailer by using the single long and high pitched note for the recognition of the disruption. I then want the sound to be really fast and jittery during the build up to the montage and the montage itself as I really liked the effect it gave in the 'You're Next' trailer.

To listen to different sounds and music tracks for inspiration based on this research, I went onto a website called http://www.freeplaymusic.com/. There is a huge range of sounds that could be appropriate in creating an eerie mood for the equilibrium and a suspense building and adrenaline rushing mood for the disruption.

• Abandoned Infirmary
• Inner Beauty
• Lonely Spirits 2

• Boxed surprise

• Day of the signals

• Nice cigarette

I really like the Nice Cigarette track and I think it would be good in the montage. I will speak to the other members of my group but I want to blade it on Final Cut Pro X and use the electric sounds in between the shots of the montage.