Soundtrack Research

A soundtrack is the recording of a musical accompaniment for a movie. In my eyes a soundtrack is one of the most effective tools that can be used by producers to help make the film interesting and scary. A soundtrack can be used to keep the viewers attention by creating tension and other methods. I believe that when creating my trailer I will need to use a Soundtrack to keep the audience interested and involved in the trailer.

To create and use a successful Soundtrack I will need to research what is effective and what works well and then impliment this sort of effect in my trailer to make the music as an effective tool within my trailer.

Below I will analysis the soundtrack of several trailers.

Dead Silence

For the first half of the trailer the soundtrack isn't very prominent just a few moments of tension building by a slowing increasing pitch noise and a few SFX. The most interesting part of the soundtrack is the song at the end, as it has singing in, this is very rare but it is part of the soundtrack. It is the song that is part of the story, it used to be sung by children to try and scare each other, but in this case helps tell part of the story as the rhyme includes some important facts.

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

At the start of the soundtrack the music is quite loud and bold, then once the action has finished then a quite and delicate piano piece comes on, helping calm the audience back down, it helps keep them aware and attentive as well. There are quite a few SFX's such as the church bell, the sword swish and the loud footsteps. Then at the end is a piece of rock music, suggesting more action within the film, however this sort of music is usually related to action films so the producers might be trying to appeal to this audience by using it.

Nightmare on Elm Street

At the start of this trailer so upbeat music is played while the still human Freddy is running away from a mob of people, helping to raise the speed of the trailer and hopefully raise interest in the trailer. In this trailer also they use a sung piece of music that tells the viewers about the character, however this one is used as it will help previous fans or the previous audience relate to this trailer.

The main things I have learnt from these pieces is to slow and speed up the track depending on the speed of the clip, use creepy instruments to create a creepy atmosphere and only use a soundtrack where it is needed.