Soundtracks | Film Opening Sequence

After analysing our rough cut we decided that one of the first things we would need is some music to go along with the opening sequence. We all knew that we needed something slow, eery and then dramatic as soon as the large sound occurs and Anthony gets dragged into the hole.

We started off searching the web for royalty free music websites and eventually came across this:

http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?genre=Horror

On the website, you had the option to choose the certain genre of music you would like. We tried a few of the below options in the genre of horror:

Here we listened to some examples and found a number of pieces of music that we liked and thought would suit the scenes best. After all choosing out ones we thought were effective, we took note and began to decide which ones we would actually use in our piece.

The ones we decided on were:

- Redletter as Anthony walks down the road up until the scene where the door slams shut
- The House of Leaves as Anthony begins to walk round
- Bump In The Night as Anthony hears the huge crashing sound and begins to run

In addition to this, in order to disguise the jumps in sound of the footage when Anthony walks down the side of the busy road, we decided to search for some traffic noise. We found the desired sound effect on the following website:

http://www.soundjay.com/ambient-sounds-2.html
After we listened to a number of previews, we decided on 'Street Traffic 2' and began to download it to the computer.

We now had everything we needed regarding the sound to be used in our opening sequence.