SOUND RESEARCH

(and the sounds I used)

GENRE CODES AND CONVENTIONS

Non-diegetic sound can be used usually to be eerie and suspense music whereas for diegetic sounds there can be ambient sounds such as footsteps, doors crackling, screams and dead silence

Score - Due to the thriller element in this genre, the score in these films will be chilling, suspenseful and sudden. However, due to this genre's hybridity, the music may also have an air of unease to them. Sometimes there will be no score at all, and the only sound present is that of ambient noises or short, sharp sound effects.

Other music/sound - Apart from the score, other sounds will most fall into two categories. Either ambient noises, or eerie sound effects. Ambient noise can take priority within a scene to establish a suspense or emphasise a moment that induces anxiety within the audience (such as footsteps growing greater in volume).

Sound effects on the other hand will usually be quite sharp, piercing the film and causing the audience to draw back in awe or fear (like when billy the puppet is on screen, and an eerie, hollow sound effect begins to play)

SOUNDS I USED FOR MY OPENING SCENE:

On-screen contrapuntal music:
This is the music used in only some sections of the opening scene right at the end. This music seems to be coming from inside of the only room that is open. I chose the Black Ops ||: Tranzit Full Loading Screen Song because it has this vintage, old, and almost sinister feel to the melody which doesn't fit at all within the hotel setting.

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Tension music:
I extracted this music from Envato Elements and used them in scenes that have a lot of build-up tension to them like when Subject is running down the corridors for the audience to experience his fear.

High pitched silence:
Used in the flashback scenes for the audience to be as lost and confused as the main character so we have a clear positioning of space and time.

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Stab:
I used the stab in the two scenes where he closes his eyes to witness the flashback and the moment he wakes up from the flashback and the contrapuntal elevator music suddenly stops.

Sound effects:
I used a couple of sound effects in certain scenes including the pot smashing scene which I recorded myself when I smashed the real pot outside the hotel and the security camera scenes and the punching sound effects which I extracted from YouTube and Envato Elements.

smashing flower pot sound effect:

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security camera sound effect:

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punching sound effect:

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