Initial Sound Research

Initial Film Research.

• One of our locations is Hextable, which is an exterior location. For this location we are hoping to have an underlining sound alongside the sound of the music box playing for when the victims in our trailer 'disappear.'
• The Bay is a film which half way through the trailer a synthesised drum beat is played. It has been edited to sound more effective:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctkkn1qSYKw&safe=active 
• The sound starts a 1:33, and every time a subtitle appears, it plays this allows it to sound scarier. This is an effective underlining sound as it very jumpy and entices the audience.
  
  Another film which is effective in making very simple shots seem very scary is 'The woman in Black' from 30 seconds onward there is a very loud drum which has been elongated to make it seem scarier. The screen jumps suddenly to black as the beat is played this builds up the suspense.
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596365/?ref_=sr_1
  
  Alongside the synthasised drum beat which we are hoping to recreate, we also have experimented with music boxes and their tunes. We recorded two different music boxes playing different lullaby's. (See music box editing)

Why Did We Choose To Deconstruct..? (New Concept)

As we changed our concept considerably, we decided we'd need to do more deconstructions that were relevant to our new idea.

• Misery - inspirational for lead (obsessed female holds writer hostage)

• Smiley - features masked villain; useful for our idea of using face make-up to create wounds on victim's face

• Orphan - 'innocent child' villain; taps into personality of our antagonist especially how she doesn't have a family

• One Hour Photo - male obsessed with perfect family and collects their photos

• The Loved Ones - outcast girl steals boys and tortures them in revenge for not being invited to prom; revenge, hostage and torture aspect by girly female similar to our idea

• The Imposter - documentary features family's side of the story of a man imposing as their son; can draw inspiration from family being tricked and their emotions

• Jennifer's Body - strong female antagonist with gruesome torture scenes

• He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not/The Roommate - seemingly innocent but actually psychotic and obsessed female protagonist

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Why Did We Chose To Deconstruct...?

• The Sound Of My Voice/Martha Marcy May Marlene - genre of mystery, drama and psychological thriller and themes of secracy, cults, investigation and corruption which link to our idea.

• Another Earth/The Truman Show - concepts is similar to those in Black Mirror. Both possibilities pin the future and technology highlighting the frightening repurcussions and consequences of such. These films focus on: the discovery of Earth 2 and one man's whole life being a TV show.

• The Hunger Games - similar to The Truman Show as children fighting to the death is broadcast across the country; influences of media and the degradation of society.

• Requiem For A Dream - hard-hitting and stylistic execution. We were interested in using various camera and editing techniques in our own trailer.

• Doctor Who (The Empty Child) -  to find horror influences, conventions and techniques.

• Dead Set - from creator of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker. Focuses on influences on and from the media which links to our ideas of goverment conspiracies etc. and our main inspiration of Black Mirror.

• Deja Vu - themes of mystery and the unknown plus camera/editing techniques

• Misfits (Series 2, Episode 4) - Video-game influences, violent consequences and  effective stylised editing/camera techniques

• A Mother's Son - deals with murder, mystery and influences from online pgraphy

Daisy Edwards