planning sound- Miss Miller

planning of sound

Sound plays a vitol role within the thriller genre as it empathises' a thrillers main sources to scare its audience, and create suspense, shock and most of all surprise, creating a thrill for the audience and making it conventional to the thriller genre. Usually thrillers are based on the main focus of non-diegtic sounds, such as sound effects and background music as the sound effects will emphasis main scenes making them appeal more to the audience and stand out, where as the music will help build tension.


Within my opening thriller i will use diegetic sound to set the scene, this lack of music and other sound effects also adds suspense as it makes the scene extremely quiet, making the audience watch more closely as they are intriged to know what will happen next, as the scene is set in a deserted location. Causing the audience to only hear the wind or cars passing by.

While this is continuing to happen an off screen diegetic sound will be used, a voice of a girl speaking words. This is off screen as you can not see it in the frame the screen is focused on but can hear it, but you are unaware where it is coming from, meaning you had to add it in in the making of the clip. 

As the narrative comes closer to the end, more off screen diegetic will be used at a faster pace due to the girl in the scene becoming more stressed, creating chaos, hopefully exciting the audience. The fast pace off the music will reflect on the scenario happening in the opening sequence causing the audience to be able to relate as they have become more connected into the film.