Planning Sound - Miss Miller

Planning Sound

Sound is important within a thriller film as it manipulates the audience in feeling different emotions as it builds tension and suspense through non diagetic, diagetic, parallel, contrapuntal, off screen and on screen sounds. Sound is key for helping the audience understand what is happening in the scene as it guides the audience to feeling a specific emotion as if there is sad emotional music it will make the audience sad and if there is happy upbeat music make the audience happy. The purpose of planning sound is that when we come to edit our clip, we will know what we are going to include in our final film and allows us to realise if the sound goes well with what we are doing and if not it allows us to change it.

in our thriller clip:
In our thriller we are planning on including non diagetic sound which includes a creepy soundtrack whilst the main character suspects that she is in danger. This is conventional to a thriller as it builds the suspense for the audience as it makes them think something bad is going to happen and therefore makes the audience feel scared as the tension is building. This will also add to the enigma of the film as it brings a sense of uneasiness and mystery.  We have included this soundtrack as it builds the suspense for the audience and makes the audience feel scared and frightened for what is going to happen.

We are including parallel sound of conventional train station noises such as the rattling of tracks, sound of announcements at the station and on the train, the sound of train doors opening/closing and the sound of a train approaching. This will make the audience relate more to what is happening in the scene as it is relate able to everyday life and therefore make them feel more vulnerable as they will be able to put themselves in the characters position. This is conventional to a thriller as it makes the audience feel more involved in what's happening and therefore builds the tension more. This will also prepare the audience for a shock later on in the scene. We have included these sounds as it makes the film more relateable to the audience and therefore makes the audience build a relationship with the chracters as they will be able to relate to what is happening more.

Another sound feature we are going to include is diagetic speaking, this is going to be between the two female victims on the train, this will also make the audience feel more involved in what's happening as the characters are talking to one another also allowing the audience to have a better understanding of the plot. This is essential in our thriller as it brings across raw emotions to the audience and helps the audience understand what is happening more clearly. This will make the audience feel more emotional as they will have build a relationship with the characters as they will feel more personal as the audience will feel like the characters are talking to them. This is conventional to a thriller as it helps build the plot by making the narrative more clear through dialect. We have included diagetic speaking as it will allow the audience to build a relationship with the characters and therefore make them react more to what happens later in the scene.

We are also going to include a non diagetic loud noise when the victim first see's the killer, and the same noise repeated when she see's him later on and when she is in danger. This will shock the audience as they will have been built up for something to happen through the uneasy noises on the train, therefore making them on edge waiting for something to happen. This is conventional to the thriller genre as it makes the audience feel emotional fragile as they are taken into the events in the film.

These sound techniques are conventional in the thriller genre as it really helps the audience have a good understanding of what's going on. Sound is defiantly an essential part of a thriller film as it allows the audience to be manipulated into feeling different emotions according to the different sound techniques used. It also makes the audience feel empathy towards the characters, and without sound the film would be boring, hard to follow and the audience would loose interest. We have taken on all of these aspects into consideration when deciding what sound techniques to include in our own thriller film to help it be a big success.