Music

When watching a horror film I think that one of the most important things, when trying to create suspense is the music being played.  So I think that in a horror trailer this factor is even more important. A trailer is trying to sell the film to the audience so you want to create as much suspense as possible and this is done by music and sound effects.

We are going to use a combination of music and sound effects in our horror film. After watching many trailers we got an idea of they type of music we would like to use in our horror trailer. We liked the use of violins as they create an awkward suspense and have a spooky connotation. We want to use the slow sound of violins at the beginning of the trailer to build up the anticipation and then when the action picks up pace we want the music to mimic this and get faster and also louder.

We are also going to include sound effects to make the audience jump at the climax of the action. Some ideas we have already came up with are loud bangs, a suspicious ringing of the door bell, screams, a mysterious swing swinging in the garden and also scratching on a chalk board.

The song ‘Don’t Go’ by Bring Me the Horizon was a huge inspiration to us so therefore we are going include parts of this song in our trailer to create the suspense needed.  We like the violin part at the beginning (0.00 – 0.25) and also the more upbeat fast pace part more towards the end (3.04 – 3.31), so these are the parts we are most likely to use in our trailer.

Bring Me The Horizon - Dont Go



We also liked the idea of using a nursery rhyme in our trailer. The main character is our trailer is a little girl who haunts the girls living in the house so we thought a good idea would be to put a spooky twist on a nursery rhyme. We thought this would be a good idea because nursery rhymes have connotations of innocent sweet children so we want to make the contrast of this to show the little girl being far from innocent. We thought that ‘A teddy’s bear picnic’ would work or the ‘Freddie’s coming for you’ tune.

Freddy's Coming For You