Music

Music is a very important factor for us if we decide to go down the Horror route. This is because in almost all Horror films the music drastically enhances the tension and the overall feel of the scene/movie. Its also a huge contributor to making the movie scary. For example if you watch a Horror scene without the music it's not scary, however if you just listen to the music and don't watch the scene its still very scary.

For our production to be successful we need to make sure we use music that really does it job well and doesn't feel tacked on and sound cheesy. Someone in our group suggested we try to compose our own composition using a piano, however after discussion we found that this could be a long and risky task that probably isn't worth trying. This is because it would take many hours to create a piece of music that may just end up sounding ridiculous.

Most likely we will end up going with copyright free music from sites like www.freeplaymusic.com which we have use previously for last years media task. It is a decent website which is very user friendly and has hundreds of songs avaliable for free download. The website is sorted into different categories such as "Moody/Dark" or "Joyful" so it is easy to find music that will relate to our film. Last year we didn't really spend too much time looking for music and just used the first song that grabbed our attention. However this year we will need to comb through the website and try many different possiblities to make sure we use music that is most suited to our film.

Once we have found the right piece of music for our film there are also many techniques we can use to do things such as enhance the tension. For example if we were to have a murder scene in our film we could set the music to slowly increase in volume over time leading up to the kill. We could also mute the volume right before the kill and as soon as the killer strikes bring the music back in at a louder volume. There are many different possiblities for our group to try and we will need to experiment with a lot them to make our film as scary as possible.

Jack Windsor