What Sound Will Be Encorpourated In My Thriller?

Music in thrillers is essential! It is there to create tension and suspense in the audience, which only heightens the drama and paranoia even further. Music within a thriller is a key part to the telling of the plot, as at the build to the climax, the music will change slightly to heavier and eerier instruments and sounds, in order to solidify the anxiety the audience would be feeling at this point. 

Typically, a thriller film's sound will start off at a slow and at a gradual pace, but towards the middle and sudden scares, this pace will increase. Strings are a very popular sound to hear in thriller, as this creates a certain 'screech' which accompanies the mystery and uneasy mood of a thriller.

Alongside strings, the piano is also seen and heard in most thriller films, as its complexities to reacher various octaves is widely used. From high pitched keys, to the deepest ones, the keys of a piano are seriously exaggerated in order to force it's audiences into fits of shivers and goose-bumps, which of course is ideal also for the crowds ho watch thrillers. 

Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds are seen in most common thrillers, as soundtracks are key, and so are backing noises such as dog barks/howls.

Synchronous Sound is also a well favoured method of sound, as (for example) out of tune instruments like pianos create anticipation. 

Asynchronous Sound is another type of sound used, where the music heard has nothing to do with a thriller. This is seen mostly in Tarantino movies, such is using western soundtracks for a murder scene. 

In particular, 'the exorcist' soundtrack is of particular interest to my group and I as we have always said that we plan to incorporate piano into our accompanying music. We deeply studied this piece of music, and really idolised how it was such simple keys used, just repeated over and over. Despite this however, we are worried about this repetitive concept, as we concerned that this will not work with our opening shots and movements.