Planning sound- Miss Miller

During our planning process, we have to plan precisely what is going to be included within our final narrative to make it as effective as possible.  Sound is very important in films as it creates an understanding of the narrative and atmosphere for the audience. Thriller films especially rely on sound as they need to create suspense and anxiety throughout there film. Also they rely on their music because their footage is limited as there is many scenes where not much is going on and suspense needs to be created until something is revealed. My group and I needed to make sure that the sounds we used were effective and that we matched the sounds to the images seen, also, putting a soundtrack over the top to create more suspense and build the tension. 

The first sound in which my group and I were confident that we were going to use was the use of silence. We had noticed that silence is frequently used within thrillers as it helps to build tension by leaving the audience feel on edge which is very conventional. We thought it would be good to include silence within our thriller clip because of this reason. When adding silence to our opening scene, we thought it would be good to add it when the girl sees the male in her house. We believed this would be effective as it would contrast from the soundtrack being played constantly, so, adding immeadiate silence would show and portray the shock and fear the girl is feeling. My group and I hope that when the silence is heard, this would overwhelm the audience as they were not expecting it to happen. This leads the audience to feel nervous as to what may happen next and in the rest of the clip. 

The next sound in which we are going to include in our sequence is non-diagetic sound. This is sound that is not related to the clip yet added on in the editing stage. We will be playing an eerie, repetitive soundtrack throughout the clip. The repetition of the sound leads the audience to believe something is going to happen at anytime, however, although it is seemed something is going to happen as the music is leading to this, nothing does happen. We will layer two soundtracks on top of each other, this creates a layered more intense sound to our opening sequence and ultimatley increasing the fear.

The last sound in which we will be using is Parallel sounds/ On-screen sounds. These sounds are when the images and what we can hear complement each other. We have decided to use parallel sound frequently throughout our clip. The first time we will hear this sound is when the girl is cooking, when she is stirring the food. This sound, along with the non-diagetic sound playing in the background, will allow the audience to focus on the girl and nothing else around her. The next time we will hear it will be when the knife is scrapped along the surface of the kitchen. Again, this allows the audience to focus on the knife and what may happen with the knife. As well as hearing this sound, it allows for a chilling effect to run through the audience, the sharp, eerie sound of the knife makes the audience sit on edge and draw the audiences attention in on what may lead. The audience may feel nervous with these sounds being heard and they may feel nervous for her.

Now that we had planned the sounds which we would be using, in order to find the right sounds in order to produce a thriller opening in which the group would be confident with, we found a website name Freesound.org which had many sounds we could choose from. From diagetic sounds to non-diagetic sounds. The sounds we found from this website enhanced the original sounds that we could hear, therefore increasing the tension and suspense. Once editing is finished, adding the sound will be the main thing that builds suspense and makes the audience feel something.