Soundscape of our Thriller

In our thriller, we would use sound to help create suspense and tension in our thriller, a psychological thriller is aimed to provoke the audiences thinking and I think it's important our soundscape replicates this as it would match the convention of a psychological thriller. This would be achieved through the use of different methods of sound, for example, opening the title sequence with a score that sets the scene, for our thriller, it would be a piece of score that could replicate a heart machine at a hospital, or a lullaby that is darkened to match with the theme of torpidity.

This would involve the use of underscore to whack up the tension, which would be present when Tom Rush's character enters a shot, to clearly match the intensity and really get the tension high. This score would be an intense piece of music to compliment the high intensity of this 'chase scene'. This is an underscore which will play when Rush enters a scene, it becomes associated with him as a character and thus provides connotations of him being a tense character who provides negative connotations, which matches the intentions of the character. With the use of an underscore, the character relies on good acting and body language, whereas with it, it creates connotations and a motif.

The diegetic sound of breathing at a range of pace allows us to create tension and suspense as breathing presents the idea that something is going to happen, and the physical action of intense heavy breathing creates tension, as if a character the audience relates to is heavy breathing, there should be cause for concern amongst the audience, it also raises questions and linking back to conventions, works the mind.

Finally, the use of silence also helps creates tension and suspense, often the use of silence gets overlooked as a method of sound, but as a production team, we have carefully considered our use of sound and how to use it to full effect in order to create tension and suspense, also, the use of silence allows over technical aspects such as Mise En Scene and Cinematography to take over and allow that to transform the scene as oppose to relying on the sound to create connotations and imagery, however, silence, especially when combined an extreme close up creates tension and suspense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XyW7791kCQ This is an example of a score we could use in our thriller film.

Written by Connor Southwell