15 June 2020
Media Studies
Creating suspense using music
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Music is a really important, useful way to build up fear and suspense within the viewers.
Three steps/ideas to choosing fantastic music pieces:
1. Use strings to raise the tension.
- layering strings can make an innocent scene suspenseful and scary - uncomfortable.
- choose your instruments wisely.
2. Raise the tempo, raise the heart rate.
- playing a fast-tempo song over an almost 'normal' scene hints to the audience that something is wrong.
- you're basically reflecting the fast heartbeats of the viewers in the fast-paced tempo of the piece.
3. Use crescendo to turn tension into revulsion.
Revulsion -> a sense of disgust and loathing.
Crescendo -> slowly raising the intensity of the music until the climax occurs.
- a 'theremin' is an instrument which adds an unearthly feel to the scene - can really be used in this sense.
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For my personal video/production, I may include a few ambiance sounds of string instruments into the first few shots as they relate to the fact that an otherwise innocent scene of a child being at a park is now suspenseful and strange because of both the background song and the questionable man. I also plan to really raise the tempo and thereby mimic the heartbeat of the audience specifically in the chase scene by overlapping a more suspenseful, intimidating and fast-paced song over the current eerie song as to increase the adrenaline of the viewers. Finally, there is already a sense of tension turning into revulsion when the man chases the young girl. Where initially the audience worried about and questioned what was happening between the two characters, they then become disgusted and completely torn apart as the child is chased, grabbed, thrown over the shoulder and carried to the car. This could be amplified using crescendo, by raising the intensity of the music right up to the point where the man begins chasing after the young girl.
- a 'theremin' is an instrument which adds an unearthly feel to the scene - can really be used in this sense.
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For my personal video/production, I may include a few ambiance sounds of string instruments into the first few shots as they relate to the fact that an otherwise innocent scene of a child being at a park is now suspenseful and strange because of both the background song and the questionable man. I also plan to really raise the tempo and thereby mimic the heartbeat of the audience specifically in the chase scene by overlapping a more suspenseful, intimidating and fast-paced song over the current eerie song as to increase the adrenaline of the viewers. Finally, there is already a sense of tension turning into revulsion when the man chases the young girl. Where initially the audience worried about and questioned what was happening between the two characters, they then become disgusted and completely torn apart as the child is chased, grabbed, thrown over the shoulder and carried to the car. This could be amplified using crescendo, by raising the intensity of the music right up to the point where the man begins chasing after the young girl.
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