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

A soundtrack in a thriller is important in a thriller as it is used to reflect the content on screen and manipulate how we process the on screen story varying  the responses given back from the audience. the conventional responses from an audience when watching a thriller film is anxiety tension and the sense of feeling nervous. a soundtrack can be used to create these feelings complementing whats on screen. visual as well as aural stimuli would stimulate these feelings.

My soundtrack consisted of a slow paced melody that gradually built up in tempo building suspense and tension creating an eerie atmosphere. this is conventional to a thriller also as the atmosphere felt errie it made the audience feel tense and on edge. the build up created responses from the audience as they would begin questioning what was going on and anticipate whats going to happen next.

In producing the soundtrack to my thriller we used a programme called garage band allowing us to create sound to compliment our thriller movie. garage band allowed us to select different instruments to create the ideal effect for our thriller like the sounds of a church organ or high pitch guitar rifts.

 

 

 



My groups soundtrack was influence from a number of popular films such as 'Se7en' the distorting sounds definitely had an impact on how we shocked the audience and created mystery. An example of this was a flashing image appearing and a sound effect to startle the audience amplifying the surprise. Also 'The Exorcist' was an influence to us as the slow tempo and eerie feel it gave off was similar to what we have created. these films definitely helped create the feel of a confusing religious thriller.

Being able to create the soundtrack and effectively create the on screen thriller and have them compliment each other and go hand in hand was good. The ideal atmosphere we were looking for i believe was successfully done and evoked our desired audience responses.

Overall the soundtrack was a success as we created our desired atmosphere and produced a soundtrack that would evoke emotion from the audience.