Music/Soundtrack ideas

From the results of our questionnaires, we could see that the two most popular for 'What type of music would you want in a psychological thriller' were ambient music that builds up and shows suspense, and contrapuntal music - which contrasts to the scene.

A example of contrapuntal music having a great effect on a scene is in the classic Reservoir Dogs ear scene. 

This music makes the incredibly gory scene even more sinister because the music is so unexpected, as it does not fit with the actions of the characters on screen, by having such a cheerful song on whilst cutting someones ear off. This disturbing choice of music also heightens the scariness of the antagonist because the viewer cannot understand why he is listening to this - makes him seem even more inhumane.

Another example of this being used to an incredibly gory, almost comedic effect is in American Psycho.


Although we think this would be an incredible way to show the insanity of the killer, we have no real scenes of gore in our opening, and therefore feel like using this type of contrapuntal music may not be relevant. Also, getting a 'classic' happy/jovial song to counter a gory scene will be impossible because of copyright laws - we will have to record our own music.

We will use Logic Pro to produce our score, needing two different types of music for our contrasting scenes. For our calm beach scene at the beginning we perhaps need no music at all other than the diegetic/perhaps expanded sound of the waves rippling on the Thames shingle. If we do decide to have music, it will be very faint and nondescript, perhaps an ambient hum or quiet chords.
Our opening mainly focuses on the club scene, and for this we will need a loud bass track to express the chaos of the space - a typical house song would be relatively easy to produce.