Conventional Sounds/Music: Kirsty Griffiths.

Conventional Sounds/Music Used in Thriller Films

 

 

Sounds in thriller films are used to create understanding and meaning for the audience. This will then enable thr audience to create a response to the film.Thriller films include sounds and sountracks into their films in order to build the audiences understanding of what is happening in the film. The sounds are used to evoke the characters feelings and emotions in order to get a responce from the audience. It is also often used to symbolise both the protagonists and antagonists movements in the scene. By carefully using the sounds employed in the scene it creates the right mood and atmosphere and in the context of the thriller genre, helps to build suspence and tension. There are many different sound techniques that directors use within a scene, examples of these are: diagetic, non-diagetic, parallel sounds, on screen sound and off screen sound.

Digetic sound- sound which the characters can hear. Digetic sound can be anything that you would hear within the film world, whether it be a telephone ring, dilogue, dogs barking etc.
Digetic sound is ususally used to mae the scenes realistic and meaningful however the sounds can also have hidden connotations. For example, non stop rain can connote sadness and stress. The pitter patter of slow ran could connote a long wait or tension and suspense.