Friday, 24 October 2014

Thriller Genre: Typical Music

 The purpose of a thriller film is to create tension and to intrigue the audience, to give the viewer a sense of excitement and anticipation. To meet this they have to include music that will create the same atmosphere as the thriller film wants to achieve. Taking a scene that usually would have thriller music and removing all sound would not give the same effect; it would not create tension and would leave the scene feeling dull. A range of different non-diegetic music will be played throughout the film, the music will tend to build up as the scene becomes more intense; it will get louder and most of the time will fasten in pace this is to get the audience’s attention and to draw them into the scene. An example of a build up of music is a clip from 'Jaws', when the shark Jaws is about to sink his teeth into a vulnerable person.



They often use thriller music to show the intentions of a character and to give hints to the audience of something that’s going to happen; this all intends to create tension, excitement and anticipation.


Diegetic sounds are used to replace real sounds in a film/movie, sometimes the real sound might be unconvincing. In these cases, effects will be artificially produced. An example of this is a sequence of punches in a thriller movie, yet by convention, it is accepted as realistic.



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