Music plays a very big part in films, especially horrors, to create an ideal atmosphere and to build tension and suspense. Watching a horror without the music often makes the film a lot less scary. Looking at horror scenes and films that open with this type of scene, they tend to have quite a tense and sinister atmosphere to them. Often, there are no lyrics in the music used as this would distract the audience away from what is happening. This may cause the film to be less scary or take away from the suspense. Therefore, I have focused my research for horror scenes on Score Soundtracks as these include only the instrumental music and have no lyrics to them.
One of the soundtracks I have looked at is the 'Saw 3D Score Soundtrack' by Charlie Clouser. This is a recent horror film (Halloween 2010) and the score has 30 tracks which showed me a good range of the music they used. It used a range of tempos depending on what was happening in the film. For our film opening, the first scene will be of the female character running away from something in a forest. This would require quite a distinctive beat and fast tempo but also it would have to maintain a spooky atmosphere. Also, there are clips of her visions which wouldn't have to use a fast tempo but should keep a haunting atmosphere. I think that the following tracks (linked to the song) would be suitable if applied to our own film:
Running Scene: Track 4 - 'Chase Jill', Track 8 - 'Jill Dream', Track 15 - 'Strugglebeat', Track 28 - 'Roaster', Track 29 - 'Dr. Gordon Montage'.
Visions: Track 1 - 'Cauterize', Track 13 - 'Birdcage', Track 14 - 'News Bar', Track 18 - 'Quiet Nina', Track 26 - 'Fifty Cal'.
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