Post-production: Soundtrack of the thriller production

Post-production: Soundtrack of the thriller production: Miss Begum

Soundtracks are very important to thrillers because it plays a bigrt in the film when it comes to the effectiveness of the thriller. For instance, imagine a thriller without a soundtrack, it wouldn't have any impact at all on the audience because the soundtrack illustates tension, feelings and fear within the target audience.

The use of sound has a big imact on the target audience considering that the sound creates the feelings of tension and fear within the audience. As the tension in the thriller builds the sound also grows louder and is at it's loudest when dramatic scenes or when action has taken place in the film.

A convensional sound track for a thriller always include and depend on these three key things... 1.An Eary Effect 2. The Pace and 3. The Character. Firstly I would like to explain the first key thing to why it makes a thriller convensional. An Eary sound effect always gets the audiencve feeling uncomfortable and making them feel a scense of fear and a build up of tension. This is used in all thriller films because this is what gets the audience intrieged and curious to what is going to happen in the next scene.

 Secondly the pace of the soundtrack/effect. This is very convenstional because the soundtrack depends on the pace of the scene and the film overall. For instance, When there is a build up to action or an attack the sound track used at this poinjt will be slow and quiet and as more action is taking place, the soundtrack will then speed up to combine with the pace and movement of the fim. As there is a dramatic scene occuring the pace of the soundtrack is then at it's loudest and fastest to convey to the audience that there is danger amognst the characters in the film.

Lastly, the character. This is very important to a convensional thriller because the soundtrack also reflects on the characters personality. For example the protagonist is more likely to have the less dramtic soundtrack unless the character is in a scene where they are being attacked or trying to get away from being hurt. On the ohter hand, the antagonsist will have more of a dramatic arrival to the film by using louder and more dramatic sound effects.

To create the soundtracks for the thriller film I used the Programme Garadge Band
Garage band has a range of different sound effects and soundclips that you can create or that you can use. For my soundtracks I created my own because I wanted it to be more original to my group's thriller.

In this case I created a range thriller sound tracks for my film. To do this I used the garadge band programme. The insprations I used where the distorted sounds from Se7en to create that effect of confusion with the flashing imasges. My other inspirations was influenced by the film The Extersist. This film inspired me to create an Eary but dramatic sound track to use for different parts of my thriller opening. The more less dramatic soundtracks were planned to be used for the scenes that had a build up of tension. For example when the Antagonists stalk the protagonsist and when the protagonist realised she is captured. The more louder soundtracks I created are based on the more dramatic scens that are focused on the antagonists of the film.

I think in my thriller soundtrack I thought about it carefully first about how I wanted it to sound like. What sort of sounds would set the audience on edge? At the end I used the Idea of the sounds starting off quiet and then eventually grew louder and more eary.

How do you believe that the soundtrack has helped your overall production? What has the impact been? Do you believe your thriller is now more conventional?
Now that the soundtrack has been created and has been fitted in to the right scenes, I can now say that my thriller is conventional.