Music research

Seven

Seven was very useful when choosing music for our film trailer because it is a 1995 film. Because the film was made over 20 years ago. This means that the film has a voice over man and there is very little in terms of background music throughout the entire trailer. 
We took this older style of trailer and used it as inspiration for the first section of our trailer. Our trailer is split up into three separate sections and we used an ambient sound named "Drone Suspense 2" when the antagonist is talking, much like the sound used when Brad Pit's Seven character is being introduced. This is different from Seven because Brad Pitt plays the role of a protagonist cop, whereas in contrast Henry plays the kidnapper.





Shutter Island

Shutter Island's trailer is heavily focused on the main protagonist's actions. It starts with some calming music and identification of location, slowly building tension as the trailer progresses. The speed and intensity of the music picks up considerably once the protagonist becomes aware of the news that the prison may be corrupt or something deeper is going on - not specified in the trailer. This was used as inspiration in our trailer because once the audience is made aware that a girl has been kidnapped the music develops from slow piano-like sounds to intense, fast playing music.






Silence of the Lambs

Silence of the lambs' trailer pacing is very similar to that of Shutter Island and solidified our idea to increase the speed and music intensity later on in the trailer. Silence of the Lambs had the main focus being between the police inspector analysing Hannibal and Hannibal himself whereas our trailer focuses on the battle between our antagonist and his captive, Rosey. We used this trailer to help develop when to trigger the quickening of pacing. In Silence of the Lambs they use Hannibal saying "tick tock, tick tock" whereas we use Daniella saying "he's taken her" to symbolise the build in intensity.