Planning sound - Ms Miller

In thriller films, the music is used to create both tension and suspense amongst the audience, it also makes them feel a sense of fright and makes them scared. The music also contributes towards the build up to the climax because the music will build a relationship with the audience. We plan to make our opening scene contain typical conventions of a thriller such as; eerie music to emphasise the atmosphere. At the start of thrillers the music usually starts at a slow pace whilst through the progression of the play it gradually increases helping build tension and a climax.

We plan to use contrapuntal sound at the beginning when the girl is getting ready mainly because it will create a contradictory mood amongst the audience and help create a diverse atmosphere. The fact that the music will be happy and cheerful when getting ready will help the audience build a relationship with both the audience and the characters because the audience will be feeling sympathetic towards the girl as they can see that she is young. It would also help build a climax towards the end of the play as the audience anticipate what is going to happen next, the music would contradict the whole plot adding an extra sense of mystery to the entire narrative.This is conventional to a thriller because it builds both suspense and tension amongst the audience as they're less expecting bad things to happen, but when they do the audience are more shocked.

At the beginning of the clip where we used a mid shot to represent the TV and a variety of camera shot to get the girl ready. The crackling of the sound over the TV adds to the eerie soundtrack in the background. The crackling affect was used to connect between the image on screen, it would also make the audience jump on occasion which would be a conventional feature of a thriller film. The main reason for using an eerie soundtrack would be to hopefully portray the film as leading to a climax and create suspense as they feel as though it is leading up to something bad.  Furthermore it would make the thriller seem more mystic which would be a motif amongst the thriller genre as its a key element used to create suspense amongst audience. The eerie soundtrack in our thriller will build tension in our thriller clip as the music slowly becomes quiet to louder which would make the overall scene seem more scary and tense. 

Finally we used parallel sound of the television alongside the glass smashing and the girls footsteps. The main reason why we used this specific sound technique was to try and make the audience jump and create a tense atmosphere within the audience. The parallel sound will also help create a relationship between both the audience and characters as the audience start to feel sorry for the girl in the clip as they realise that the girl is vulnerable and alone.

The use of sound made our thriller more successful as it helps build tension, create suspense and add to the narrative. Ultimately would add clarity to the storyline as the audience understand the thriller better due to the effects of sound. So sound is conventional to the thriller because it creates suspense and surprise amongst the audience because it is conventional to the thriller genre.