Soundtrack Research

Creating a film of my own, it is important that I understand what types of music there is and what I am able to use within my film.

Copyright Music:

Copyright is when a track or a piece of music is owned by a someone or a company. They therefore hold the legal right to use this music within their work and no one else is able to use it unless consent is given by the owner of the copyright. Independent films tend to either use non - copyright music within their films or create their own as it can be very expensive to use a piece of copyright music within their work. I will not be using copyright music within my work, instead I will have to look for some non - copyright horror music to use within my work to use.


Non - Copyright Music:

Non - copyright is when a person or company, who created a track or piece of music, did not place copyright onto it. This therefore means anybody is able to use that music within their work without getting fined or their work being removed. Although there is less non - copyright music compared to copyright, I am going to have to search for the right horror music to fit my open 2 minutes of my film to create tension and also link back to the fact that it is a horror.


Diegetic Sound:

Diegetic sound is sound that is visible as to where it is coming from. For example, if someone was in a scene and we see and hear them talking, this would be diegetic sound.
I am not going to use any diegetic sound within my opening 2 minutes as I am only going to have the antagonist and protagonist within the opening 2 minutes of my film and the protagonist is not aware of the antagonists presence so there will be no communication between the both of them.


Non - Diegetic Sound:

Non - diegetic sound is when there is music or a sound within a track that we are unable to see where it is coming from. For example, music over the top of the scene will not allow the audience to know where it is coming from, however, it still allows suspense to be created within the scene.
I am going to use non - diegetic sound within my opening 2 minutes of my film to create tension and suspense. I will also find a track that increases the tension and pace at which the music is played so that it builds up to the disaster at the end of the opening 2 minutes.

I am going to use this piece of music as my soundtrack to my film. This will be played over the top of any sound that is within my film and will create tension due to the fact that it is quite scary sounding.

I will place this over the top of my clip when the protagonist opens the front door, this will add more of a horror like feel to it and also make the house sound old a creaky.

I will have this layered over the top of my clip when the protagonist sees the antagonist. I will have it faded so that it is just added to the soundtrack that is already playing to add tension and also make the audience aware that he is afraid because his heart rate has raised.

I am going to use this clip but crop it to the section where the door slams. Like with the opening door effect, I will layer this over the top of the clip of the door slamming to emphasise on the sound.

This sound affect is dramatic and so I will place this over the areas where the antagonist appears as it makes it more scary.
 

This will be placed over my clip as the protagonist walks up the stair and towards where the antagonist is in the room. This adds tension to the scene as we are aware something bad is going to happen due to the build up of sound.