The results me and Emma obtained from our questionnaires showed that the two main favourites for 'What type of music would you want in a psychological thriller' were ambient music that builds up and shows suspense, and contrapuntal music - which contrasts to the scene.
This music really helps to make the incredibly gory scene even more sinister because the music is so unexpected - how can he be listening to such a cheerful song whilst cutting someone's ear off? This disturbing choice of music also heightens the scariness of the antagonist because the viewer cannot understand why he is listening to this - makes him seem even more inhumane.
Another example of this being used to an incredibly gory, almost comedic effect is in American Psycho.
Although we think this would be an incredible way to show the insanity of the killer, we have no real scenes of gore in our opening, and therefore feel like using this type of contrapuntal music may not be relevant. Also, getting a 'classic' happy/jovial song to counter a gory scene will be impossible because of copyright laws - we will have to record our own music.
We will use Logic Pro to produce our score, needing two different types of music for our contrasting scenes. For our calm beach scene at the beginning we perhaps need no music at all other than the diegetic/perhaps expanded sound of the waves rippling on the Thames shingle. If we do decide to have music, it will be very faint and nondescript, perhaps an ambient hum or quiet chords.
Our opening mainly focuses on the club scene, and for this we will need a loud bass track to express the chaos of the space - a typical house song would be relatively easy to produce.
CLUBBING SCENE/NIGHTLIFE MUSIC AND STYLE IDEAS
This scene from the 2011 version of Fright Night portrays a similar chaotic club feel that we want to produce through the use of dancing bodies, people bustling past the camera and hands flailing around. Fast paced editing has been employed to enhance this - as well as a shaky camera to give off the amount of movement.
This is the opening to the film 'Welcome to the Punch', which we felt linked most to what we were going to try and produce within our 'London' scenes when the group of friends are walking out of the club. The use of vibrant colour (especially blue) is something we definitely want to explore and like in this clip, we want to make use of the urban space around us - by highlighting the tower blocks illuminating light from their windows and the reflection/metallic quality of the modern buildings.
A example of contrapuntal music having a great effect on a scene is in the classic Reservoir Dogs ear scene.
This music really helps to make the incredibly gory scene even more sinister because the music is so unexpected - how can he be listening to such a cheerful song whilst cutting someone's ear off? This disturbing choice of music also heightens the scariness of the antagonist because the viewer cannot understand why he is listening to this - makes him seem even more inhumane.
Another example of this being used to an incredibly gory, almost comedic effect is in American Psycho.
Although we think this would be an incredible way to show the insanity of the killer, we have no real scenes of gore in our opening, and therefore feel like using this type of contrapuntal music may not be relevant. Also, getting a 'classic' happy/jovial song to counter a gory scene will be impossible because of copyright laws - we will have to record our own music.
We will use Logic Pro to produce our score, needing two different types of music for our contrasting scenes. For our calm beach scene at the beginning we perhaps need no music at all other than the diegetic/perhaps expanded sound of the waves rippling on the Thames shingle. If we do decide to have music, it will be very faint and nondescript, perhaps an ambient hum or quiet chords.
Our opening mainly focuses on the club scene, and for this we will need a loud bass track to express the chaos of the space - a typical house song would be relatively easy to produce.
CLUBBING SCENE/NIGHTLIFE MUSIC AND STYLE IDEAS
This scene from the 2011 version of Fright Night portrays a similar chaotic club feel that we want to produce through the use of dancing bodies, people bustling past the camera and hands flailing around. Fast paced editing has been employed to enhance this - as well as a shaky camera to give off the amount of movement.
This is the opening to the film 'Welcome to the Punch', which we felt linked most to what we were going to try and produce within our 'London' scenes when the group of friends are walking out of the club. The use of vibrant colour (especially blue) is something we definitely want to explore and like in this clip, we want to make use of the urban space around us - by highlighting the tower blocks illuminating light from their windows and the reflection/metallic quality of the modern buildings.
