By Ranvir Jandoo 12W

Analysis of Music Used

The music that has been chosen to be used throughout our opening sequence, have
been selected to present how the character Jake is feeling at the moment in time of
different
scenes.
Most of the sounds we had chosen were non diegetic which means that the character
cannot hear the sound, only the audience can. The sounds were mainly tense, slow
paced soundtracks that were used to increase tension in the scenes, these were apart of
typical thriller codes and conventions therefore the sounds had worked with the scenes.
An example of a soundtrack that increased suspense and tension would be the CCTV
footage scene were the soundtrack Pressure was used, the sound was flowing with the
tempo of the actor which meant that the tension was building up gradually rather than
building up faster than the footage. At the beginning of the sequence we had chosen to
use a slow paced, jumpy instrumental to signify to the audience that the production was
going to be an extraordinary production. The use of diegetic sound added to the tension
as we had used heartbeats and heavy breathing to create a suspenseful atmosphere, as
we did not have much dialogue we had used the diegetic sound to fill in for the lack of
dialogue. By the end of the opening sequence we had used a bang to signify that Jake
had struck himself with the hammer and the chisel, we had chosen to used sound after
the recording had finished to inform the audience that something had happened, instead
of letting the sequence end on a cliff hanger.