Thriller Development #10: Soundtrack

Taken from Sophie's Blog: 

Beccy and I have been given the task on researching and possible find music.
Deciding on a thriller song will be hard, manly because of two reasons : the expectations of what a thriller should be the second will be try to find music that will fit the editing or trying to fit the editing around the music.

Copy right laws also make it hard for us to find music with out paying royalties.

Music ideas we have are;

• Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Movement 1.
• The rite of spring - stravinsky
• Horror film music - scary halloween piano music- isisip original instrumental music - myth
• Frosty moon by shingetsutan tsukihime

There is another piece which would be very good to use however, we can not do this because of copy-write laws. The piece is Frosty moon by shingetsutan tsukihime. We also had this trouble with the song "Myth". However we can do Beethoven and Stravinsky.

At the moment it is had to choose a music piece to go with our film. It will be much easier to do the editing and then pick one of the pieces to use.

This piece is subtle and creepy, the only trouble with this piece is that it is played by an orchestra. Many people dislike the this music and the music is very key to the opening f the film there for if people don't like the music they won't like the film. If we had of made the film in the 50's i think this piece would be perfect however with the range of music genres now out there i think it will be tricky to get this pice to work however having sad that if this piece does work it will be very effective.

This piece is very effective to the audience. This piece makes you think like a good thriller film, it also makes you feel like you are in a dream, a world with no truth. There is also crescendo build ups in this piece. this piece has a mixture of note values this helps to give you the idea that you don't know what to expect next. There are 3 different parts to this piece, the structure goes A B A C A. The good thing about this piece is that it will appeal to the audience meaning. Many people turn their noises up at classical and orchestral pieces, this piece uses a piano so it does not have the classical/ orchestra sound. Though classical pieces are ones which we should use because of copy write laws tis does not men we should se them as this can sometimes reduce our audience market. Often the structure of classical songs reflect a story for example Raindrop prelude by Chopin is a story of a storm, the structure of it is a ternary structure ( A B A). this piece starts of calmly( A) then builds up to the storm (B) and then quietens down again (A). This piece comes from a collection of 3. This is the 1st movement of them, called Adagio Sostenuto. The third piece of this movement is too fast Ferocious. The second movement is too short. The 1st movement  is based on an accompanying motif in triplet rhythm that, together with a accented notes motif, creates the impression of a grave, meditative state of mind. The composer adds the following direction at the beginning of the first part: „ Si deve suonare tutto pezzo delicatissimamente e senza sordino” which means that the performer should play the part with great delicacy and without dampers. Moonlight sonata is the 2nd movement out of 4 movements. This Movement is the best known. 

This Piece i think will be very effective for thriller music. This piece i feel had the effect to make you more sad then scared or tense. This piece, however is not very long lasting, only 1.56 minutes. We cannot use this unfortunately because of copy write law.

This piece is really good as it is more recent using developed instruments like the synth to create tension. I think however for the thriller we are doing to tempo is too slow. This might be good for a horror but not for our thriller.

This is a collection or already used thriller ad horror theme track, this helped us in deciding which songs to pick as it gave us a greater understanding of what is needed.

My Comment:

I had not as much input on the music but when they found one they liked I gave my opinion. Sophie said she would like to edit and muck around with the music (Since she is taking music tech) and she knows more about music than I do. Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Movement 1 & The rite of spring by Stravinsky are the two songs we are looking at because they aren't copy righted and depending on how much time we have we may or may not edit it but try and fit our filming in with the soundtrack. We like these two because they are eerie and sets the right tone and atmosphere we want to achieve in our opening. These two tracks fit what we want well into producing a physiological thriller.

The music could be compared to Hitchcock thriller films, but we are trying not to make it as aggressive and upbeat like in "North by NorthWest". We are following his style of using classical music but at a lower/slower tempo.