Why Music is Needed in Films:
While we certainly experience film through our eyes, we just as surely experience it through our ears. Music plays up our emotions, and allows us to feel a certain way. The onscreen action, provides clues and cues as to how the accompanying music does or is supposed to make us feel. In films like Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho, straining strings and overblowing brass are mimicking the noise of panic in nature, which inspired us for some ideas.
Choosing Our Music:Before deciding upon any music, we had to ensure we were searching for music that was uncopyrighted, and that we had the rights to use. In order to do so, we started by exploring YouTube for possible options. Fortunately, we came across 4 sets of music that we liked the sound of. In the screenshot (right), shows how we found some effective uncopyrighted music.
From the 4 pieces of music we found, we decided that only 2 would fit with our opening. The 2 that we didn't use, were too gruesome sounding for a thriller, and sounded more like horror music. The final 2 we settled on created enigma and suspense, and composed well with our opening.
Editing the Music:
We were very happy with our choices of music, and were looking forward to adding them to our editing process. However, we came across a problem when we joined the music with our action. We found that the music didn't quite fit or sound/look like a convincing thriller. Originally, the music at the beginning of our opening was more thrilling and dramatic than the music at the end, which didn't work as we wanted the music to build up to a climax at the end of the opening. In order to fix this problem, we switched around the order of the music so that the more intense music would be at the end, and we found that this solved the problem.
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