Music And SFX

What myself and my group felt really made a trailer effective and in this case related to the horror genre, was the soundtrack and sound effects that we would use to assist our current shots. These would help to bring each sequence together and create suspension between scenes and shots. I can also help to narrate the trailer and assist in giving the audience an idea about the plot. By doing some research, we recognised that each horror film had its own 'iconic soundtrack' for example the famous 'Psycho' and 'Halloween' soundtracks below;








Along with iconic characters and plot lines, these two films are also very well recognised by their soundtracks, which are not only used throughout their trailers but within the whole film as well. We wanted to imitate this convention and find a sound track for 'REDEMPTION'. We wanted to go for a 'indie' or 'grungy' effect, which challenges many conventions for horror trailers as they usually tend to go for strings and synths etc. We also wanted there to be a constant base sound which can reflect the rhythm of a train etc. Here were a couple bands and artists that we considered using for our soundtrack:

• Placebo 
• Marilyn Manson
• The Killers 
• MUSE
• Bat for Lashes 
• Vampire Weekend
• Radiohead
• Kings Of Leon

Here is our final decision:

As you can hear, there is a constant base throughout, and we feel as if his voice is not too strong and is very atmospheric which is good for our genre. Furthermore, we want to aim at the younger generation and finding a soundtrack with an actual artist who is constantly producing new media, who they may already be familiar with can attract them to our film.

Our sound effects:
To try and add elements of horror into our trailer and make out audience 'jump' we decided to use many bangs and smashes alongside an eerie 'mysterious noise'.