Soundtrack- Part One

For my next piece of research, I am going to be looking into the different kind of soundtracks available to me to use for my film opening, and which ones out of the available selection, will fit in with my idea for the plot of my film opening. Before researching into sound, the idea I have already, is, to start of with, and intense, almost screeching sound that will help build tension, and immediately intrigue and draw in an audience. This will help capture their interest and help them to "divert"- one of the reasons people engage in the media according to the Uses and Gratifications theory by Bulmer and Katz- away from real life. If I succeeded in being able to succeed in creating this effect for my audience, I would not only be successfully engaging with my target audience through the sound track, but also helping to create that cinematic, atmospheric experience, which, in return, will help make the horror feel in my opening scene all the more realistic, meaning that I would be successfully conforming to my chosen genre.


Following of from a tension building mood setting soundtrack for the first few seconds of my film opening, after this I would like to find a circus-like theme tune for the rest of my opening sequence. This soundtrack would ideally start of light and airy, but would slowly get sharper and darker  until it reached a peaked of intensity. The reasons which I want to do this is because I feel like it would help set the mood of what would be the rest of my film, in addition to helping create a sense of paranoia and fear with in an audience as they know that something bad is going to happen, creating an enigma code (Bathes) within the product, and resulting in an audience to keep watching as they will want to unravel the mystery of what that enigma is (surveillance= Bulmer and Katz). Finally, I feel like this kind of soundtrack would follow an almost musical version of The theory of equilibrium, placed forward by Todorov. My reasons for this are that the soundtrack would start of at an equilibrium, before building up in tension-keeping an audience intrigued- and then reaching a disruption. The only difference here would be that, since it's only the opening of the film, there would be know re-instalment of equilibrium. Nevertheless, the music would still tell it's own story, engaging an audience, and you could say that, evidently, the music gives the basic outline of the plot of the film to the reader in the opening alone.