It is an enormously important role that well-composed music and striking sound effects play in creating a complete and truly frightening horror film experience. I have a great interest in background sound & music. “Music in horror films is probably more powerful than in any other genre, so it is good for a composer to do them because he can be very influential on the action. For example, watch a horror movie without music and it is not frightening, though it may be gruesome. But add the music and you add tension.” In my film I mainly want to use the music and sounds to express the bizarre atmosphere & suffocating feelings. So I decided to use some Japanese & Korean horror film music, coz I thought these genre of music will be fit the feelings of the performance of my film. Then, I started to listening lots of soundtracks from the Japanese & Korean movies. I found some soundtrack in those films, such as A.Rang, Celle, A.Brighter.Summer.Day, Ringu, and Ringu.2. And I thought there are just few soundtracks matched my requirements. I need some very simple & slow music which played by piano to fit my images. The sounds cape in films usually consists of three separate, yet closely related aspects: Music, sound effects and speech. Both the music and the sound effects are directly linked to the visuals of the film. Music works by accompanying the events in the film to create or adjust a certain mood or atmosphere. Sound effects are usually tied even more closely to the events in the film and in most cases are applied to intensify and mark direct actions such as movements and impacts. These sounds are usually exaggerated (especially in horror films), and a classic example of an exaggerated sound effect is punches (and other impacts), which often sound like whip lashes when normally they would produce a barely audible. Although “amplifications” of this kind in some cases negatively affect the realism of certain events in a film, they do serve to increase the power and intensity of movements, impacts and other actions, which is very important especially in horror films aiming to create an audio-visual experience. “A sound’s origin is not as important as the listener’s expectations of how something should sound. In films and television, many natural sounds do not meet everyone’s expectations. When this happens, they are either replaced with more suitable sounds or the natural sound is layered (other sounds are added) to make it more desirable”. It is also interesting to note that horror films tend to highlight sounds that we would normally not pay attention to, such as a beating heart or someone breathing. The purpose of this might be to draw the audience into the scene, to make it part of the action and put it in the situation of the victim and it works well.
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