Thriller Soundtrack

The Soundtrack

This is the piece of music that has been selected to be used in our thriller. After started the edit on my thriller film I listened to a number of different classic thriller soundtracks and practiced putting each one in with the film to see which best fit. After evaluating all of the different options I came to a conclusion that this classic thriller soundtrack named 'need blood' was best fitting. Our aim with the soundtrack was to build up a sense of tension throughout the film and to also create a sense confusion and fear. This soundtrack is very nearly five minutes long, and our film lasting roughly 1 minute 20 seconds, we thought that this would give us the good opportunity to take different parts of this soundtrack and to apply it to our film where it best fitted, for example, roughly a minute into our film we cut the soundtrack so that there is a silence when the title of our film appears (The Pursuit) and then after the pause comes a sharp high pitch shriek which really takes you by surprise and catches your attention. We feel that our soundtrack captures some of the main conventions of a thriller film in the form of tension and suspense. We also found that the name of this soundtrack 'need blood' suited our thriller film to a great extent as our whole story line is set about seeking death upon an individual almost as if they need their blood in order to feel content.

 

We also considered using this original thriller soundtrack called 'Sophias Smile'. We felt in the end that this soundtrack wasnt intense enough for our thriller film and although it created an eery tension it wasn't the right one for us