Genre Research into Music

Music
In our film, we are wanting to use diegetic sounds as the music will change from gentle to tense. In the title sequence, it will start gentle and then gradually cause tension by speeding up. When it starts off gentle, it will have the shots of the two sister together, getting ready and arriving at the graveyard. The music will start to cause tension when the shots of a passing car speeding, dripping water etc. We will also interpret a scream into the title sequence to imply a mad sound.

In the beginning, we are going to use sad and soft tones of music to convey the feelings of sadness as their Mother has just been killed in a car accident and they have found a letter addressed to them. However by the end, after meeting Katherine and seeing how she reacts and her attitude in the hospital, the music will cause more tension and increase the speed of it as they are realising the truth.

During the first part of the film, we are using a voiceover from the moment the sisters open the letter and when it finishes. We are continuing to show the actions of the characters and convey an even more sad tone as they will be going to the graveyard.      




We are going to use a diegetic sound of a girl screaming in the title sequence. It will only be short but it will be effective. Horrors and psychological thrillers often use a girl screaming to show intensity and it scares the audience. Screaming is often related to violence, being scared/frightened.















We are going to use a diegetic sound of water dripping out of a tap in the title sequence to cause a little bit of tension and mystery as this is often used in psychological thrillers/horrors







Often in a Psychological Thriller, the music used is tense and speeds up to make the audience hang at the end of their seats in anxiety about whats going to happen. The non-diegetic music used is usually a song just featuring in the film, most films would use a normal song conveying everything is alright. Usually by the end of a film, most things have been revolved so they can use a normal and happier song. The use of diegetic sounds in this genre of film can vary from the previous, dripping of water to screaming to heartbeats.