Film Opening Music ResearchLucy Heaney

Title Sequence Music

My partner Liv and I decided to look on YouTube to see if we could find any horror/thriller based royalty free music, in which we could include in our film opening. For this section, aka the title sequence, we wanted to find a piece of music that was not too cliche or stereotypical of a horror film, meaning a piece of music that involves a chase based beat or screeching. We wanted something that was quite eery and mysterious. In the screenshot on the right, we found a producer of royalty free music called ‘Kevin Macleod’. After looking through pieces of his music, we found a piece called ‘Bump in The Night’, we both discussed how we could use this piece of music as we both thought it was appropriate and would fit the title sequence of the opening.

Logo Overlaying Music

More research into the producer ‘Kevin Macleod’, we found a piece of music called ‘Right Behind You’. We decided that we needed to include some overlaying music to go with our company logo presentation. We felt for this, we could use more cliche/stereotypical music as this music typically puts an audience or viewers on edge without any major acknowledgement or without trying. Furthermore, as the company logo is the first thing that will be presented and the first thing the viewers will see, using this instantly indicates the theme/genre of the film to them, and possibly prepares them for the type of feature they will be viewing. It also adds to the theme of the film and is fitting.

Research Into Extra Music 1

Looking at some more pieces of music by ‘Kevin Macleod’, I found some pieces of music that I felt could be included throughout the film opening, which could add to the tense atmosphere or could possibly help to create some tension or atmosphere for the audience, making the film more of a horror.

The pieces of music i found and personally thought would be appropriate and would work well were called ‘Very Low Note’, ‘Decay’ and ‘Apprehension’. I thought sections of these could be appropriate in certain areas of the opening, especially when it gets to the ‘bloody mary’ scenes in the bathroom, where tension is at its peak.