Sound Ideas
Sound is an absolute key aspect when creating any sort of horror. The use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound helps make any horror film even more dramatic and tense for the audience. Using loud bangs and creepy background music helps to make the film even scarier because it leaves the audience on the edge of their seat and wanting to watch more. Scary music can be used to build the tension in an important scene so the person watching is able to prepare when the film gets scary because something is going to happen. When something does eventually happen a loud bang or something must be portrayed to actually frighten the audience.
Our opening title sequence being based around zombies means we need to incorporate lots of different sound effects. Our inspiration for our opening title sequence comes from '28 Days Later' (2002). So we will most probably try to recreate the soundtrack from that particular film as its effect and goes well with our planned sequence.
These are some examples of non-diegetic soundtrack used in '28 Weeks Later' and found on youtube that we may use in opening title sequence:
Our opening title sequence being based around zombies means we need to incorporate lots of different sound effects. Our inspiration for our opening title sequence comes from '28 Days Later' (2002). So we will most probably try to recreate the soundtrack from that particular film as its effect and goes well with our planned sequence.
These are some examples of non-diegetic soundtrack used in '28 Weeks Later' and found on youtube that we may use in opening title sequence:
We decided upon trying to rein act the same sort of theme as '28 Weeks Later' as it was also a zombie theme and that is the sub-genre we all agreed on doing. The '28 Weeks Later' soundtrack was different from any other zombie sound we had found and as a group we felt we could try and incorporate it into our own opening title sequence. Unfortunately we didn't end up using this sound as our idea changed slightly and it no longer made sense to use it.
We also felt that because our opening title sequence was set in a clinical hospital environment that using a heart monitor sound in the background would help set the scene a lot more. Above is a sound consisting of a heart monitor. In our final opening title sequence we used something very similar to this to portray the zombie/transformation into a zombie.
(AC)
As our opening title sequence is going to be set in a medical environment we think it would be a good idea to use sounds that make our location more convincing. Throughout our OTS we want to create the ambience of a hospital by having a constant heart monitor sound in the back ground, we think this will make it more realistic as well as fitting really well with our sub genre. When our main character begins to turn into a zombie we plan to speed up the heart monitor sound effect which will create great tension and then finally climax with a heart monitor flat line, juxtaposed with a shot of our character dead. We believe this use of sound will make the scene more exciting and also makes the location of the OTS more believable to the audience.
(MG)