THE PITCH - 9) Sound Design - Rhianna

When making a title sequence sound is a very important aspect of it. So our group had to plan what type of sound we wanted to accurately capture the mood of the movie. Since we are making a Thriller movie we needed the sound to build up leading the audience to expect something to happen. Her is a rough cut of what we want our title sequence to sound like:


As well as the non diegetic background music playing (from Purple-planet.com) I have also included some of the diegetic sound that you will see on screen. For example; I have included the ambient sound at the beginning of the cars passing by on a street which will accompany the establishing shots of our main character's setting. There are also sounds of her brushing her hair, putting on perfume, walking towards something/someone and then a strangled scream at the end, signalling that someone has died.

The background music from Purple-planet.com called 'Insidious' is a very effective piece to be used in thrillers like ours. It is calm yet eerie in the beginning, alluding to the audience that something is off. This would be very good in our sequence as the audience would see the back of an innocent looking girl who they would not usually suspect anything from. It also picks up in places as if something out of place is shown on screen; in our sequence we plan to have odd elements of a stereotypically sweet girl shown next to her very mundane objects. Towards the end it also picks up dramatically as if there is a spectacular grand finale for the audience which our group planned to have our cute and innocent main character kill another character.

Some of our inspirations for this type of design range from sequences like Insidious, Splice and Nightmare on Elm Street.

Insidious' title sequence uses an effective score. It gradually gets louder and more intricate as it picks up - allowing the created tension to be more prominent to the audience. We want our piece to have the same kin of effect as it creates tension for the audience as we allow the sound to grow and grow until the end point where all we hear is what we can see on screen. In Splice, the title sequence is also effective as the sound included creates the effect that the audience are plunging through something - water. as well of this the sound of the veins being pumped with blood and the constant heart beat prepare the audience for what is coming. Our group wants to do the same and prepare our audience for what is to come at the end of the sequence and the the rest of the movie.