I found a track I particuarly liked called 'Blackout' and I felt it went well with my trailer. The strings and eery tones fit the mystery and thriller aspect of the film, whilst the piano part of the song make it seem like a drama film, which also fits in with the film's theme.
Cutting the song into parts and looping particular moments of the song, I knew I wanted to use the drum and heavy beats at important parts of the trailer, for example once the girl's face changes to the mask.
I wanted to have a faster sound during the montage/last half of my film trailer and I looked at different songs I could use. Everything I chose seemed to really stand out as it was played after Blackout and it didn't fit right, so I thought I would play around with Blackout's tempo, speed and so on.
I changed the tempo of 'Blackout' and made the pitch slightly higher, which speeds up the music and therefore adds tension. I used this in the last part of the film trailer and faded it out towards the end.
For sound effects, I found a sound called 'Dark Side' which I used at the point where the soundtrack changes tempo. This is to show that there is an obvious point where everything in the trailer speeds up, which is the time that the face of the girl is revealed to be a mask.
Throughout my interim feedback, a few people kept telling me that the little girl and older girl's scream did not fit in with the trailer, as the scream was too short and appeared out of nowhere. So I played around with the editing features of the song to see how it would be worked.
At first I copied a chunk from the middle of the scream and reentered it into the middle, this is so the scream is now longer in duration. I then used the echo effect from Final Cut Pro to extend the scream and make it echo/ The echoing scream reflects the narrative of the film, as the little girl is haunting the older girl. The scream I use is one I recorded of the little girl, and it goes over both visuals of the little girl and older girl screaming, so it shows that the two girls are connected.
Another sound I used within my trailer is another sound effect from the little girl. As the song the girl sings at the beginning is Ring A Ring o'Roses, I wanted to connect the beginning of the trailer with the end of the trailer like a loop. At the beginning the little girl sings one part of the song:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,The song is an urban legend song, which has been around for hundreds of years since 1800s. However, some people say that the song comes from the Black Plague of 1665-1666, where thousands of people died. The song therefore has quite a sinister meaning.
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
During the last part of my film trailer, I wanted the little girl's singing to echo throughout the montage and end in the final scene. So I recorded here singing another part of the song.
Fishes in the water
Fishes in the sea
We all jump up
With a one, two, three.
I made sure that I positioned the last part of the song to have the countdown to three appear just when the character opens her eyes in the last shot. I also used another effect so that her voice appears like an echo, a voice in a head which is a code of psychological thrillers.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o'_Roses
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