Thriller Sound- Miss Frisendar

Thriller Sound

In our opening Thriller scene we would like to include a variety of different sounds as they will emphasis the effect of the tension a thriller film has on the audience especially as we are going to incorporate diegetic and non-diegetic sound which is conventional to Thrillers and the film industry. We have researched into some Thrillers and saw how successful diegetic and non-diegtic sound was in them which influenced us with some sound we chose to use.
 

     We are going to include diegetic sound and non-diegetic sound throughout out opening scene. An example of diegetic sound the sound of the pill called Perteniam, fizzing in the water when Billy has dropped it into the glass, this is a parallel sound and will effect the audience by raising the intensity levels during this scene, it will also make the audience question who exactly Billy is going to harm, himself? or someone else? Another example of diegetic sound is when Billy is preparing the drink for Evie with the pill in it we are going to include the sound of a clock ticking. This should have an effect on the audience by showing them the passing of time in his mind. Also by this time the audience would have seen Billys Doctors report in our opening credits which notifies them that he has schizophrenia and is dangerous which will create a high level of suspense within the audience as they will now know he is plotting something bad in his mind. Another aspect of diegetic sound we will be using is the crunching of leaves during the chasing shot between Billy and Evie in the forest scene, we would like to use the sound of breathing along side with heavy breathing to support the fact that the characters are running, in addition to this the use of heavy breathing during the chasing scene in the nightmare connotes that the atmosphere during this shot is chaotic and this is a thriller convention and therefore has a sense that something bad may happen which creates a suspension within the audience. 
Finally, we are going to use a sound of a heartbeat at the beginning of the scene of the nightmare where we see Billy standing still looking straight towards the camera holding a knife to show the audience he is worried as to what he is actually going to do, but also the heartbeat could represent both Evie and Billys heart in the same rhythm as they're in the same nightmare and could be showing us their reaction to the nightmare before we go to the flashback. 

Another style of sound we will be using during our opening scene is some use of dialogue it will be when Billy is sitting on Evies bed and giving her the drink with the pill in it as he says it will make her feel better before she goes to sleep. 

There will be a use of non-diegetic sound during our soundtrack which we have yet decided to choose but we have been experimenting with sounds on the internet. We used 'freesound.org' for our sound throughout our Thriller, we found this website very helpful and had a wide range of different sounds that were good use to us. Weused these sounds for the footsteps when running through the forest. We also used garage band for our soundtrack during the beginning credits.