SOUNDSCAPE

Our opening to the thriller film is set in the inner city, although we are filming within a small secluded forest area. The sound need to reflect both of these aspects and include other features to present our storyline.
The non-diagetic sound in our thriller opening is very important in giving depth to our film and creating a realistic piece of media.

The first piece of non-diagetic sound we decided on was to have a recording of a police or news report explaining a murder nearby. We have explored the different ways of getting hold of this although we couldn't find anything that wasn't copyrighted or revealed too much information, and therefore decided to record our own piece and place it over the clips- this way we can ensure it is as we want it to sound and will be copyright free.


Other sound we could get hold of easily included the sound of birds. In using this light and calming sound before scenes depicting any danger, the audience will be lulled into a false sense of security( a common technique shown in thriller films) and allows the film to shock the audience unexpectedly. We found a bird sound on 'http://soundbible.com' called 'sunny day sound' that fitted this description perfectly.


The next non-diagetic sound we needed was the heavy footsteps from the antagonist walking through the forest, this was slightly more difficult to find as we needed the footsteps to appear as though the person was walking through a woodland area, and for them to not be too slow but also not too fast as it had to match the way we wanted our antagonist to move. We felt the footsteps would add a sense if urgency and give the audience that feeling of being trapped, with no form of escape, that a lot of thriller films often use. The sound we decided on again came from 'http://soundbible.com' and was called 'Hiking a trail'. Although this sound was not perfect due to the overlapping surrounding sounds  giving the clip a sense of a more tropical forest rather than a British woodland, we felt it could be presented as an ongoing sound to create distortion and confusion in each of the clips.


Another sound we needed to find for the antagonist was one of heavy breathing, the breathing adds an urgent atmosphere and gives the antagonist the identity that we didn't want to present onscreen. 
We know our antagonist is going to be a man, in keeping with classic thriller traditions, and needed to find a sound that reflected this. Again looking on 'http://soundbible.com we found 'breathing weird' and 'breathing vent' both presenting slightly distorted, unconventional breathing that we felt would fit in well with the identity of our antagonist. Although, both of these sound clips had faults. The 'breathing weird' clip felt too dramatic, and made our objective feel very obvious, although the 'breathing vent' was very quiet and, as the name suggests, made the person sound as though they were in a enclosed space, giving the the clip a slightly 'sci-fi' feel that we wanted to avoid. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXHURaIl7hA 

City sounds were also an important feature we felt needed to be included. Although the opening is set within a woodland area, we felt the city needed to be recognised within it in order to create a more secluded feeling. By using the juxtaposition of the woodland onscreen and the city sounds presented off screen, we can use the common technique of placing horrific or extraordinary events in ordinary, everyday places. The city sounds also present a familiarity that the audience can relate to and allow the events to seem more probable.
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