Sound track

Choosing the right soundtrack is an important decision for film producers. Some films of higher budgets have pieces of music written especially for them. A Composer such as John Williams is highly renowned in the filming industry for creating soundtracks that flow parallel with the narrative and themes. His career has last for almost 60years, and has composed for films such as Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, E.T., Superman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars etc...

Because our film is for the purpose of a media A level, the funding is not necessary, and getting a custom soundtrack is only possibly if we make it. It would be possibly to make a music sound track, but unfortunately the technology available to us is too novice. The only composing program available to our school is Sibelius, which is technically good for rhythmic composition, but not instrumentally. I have experienced this software at GCSE music and found it easy to work with, but it gave a poor automated sounding product as an end result.
The alternative method would be to use a soundtrack already created.

The sound the group and I want is a type that denotes the horror genre, this in musical terms requires the songs to be in a minor chord, as this chord type projects a sense of sadness, pain and anger. The alternative chord type is major, which projects a happy joyful moment, which would be ironic and not doing the job we initially selected.

The song we have chosen to be part of our soundtrack and to appear in the teaser trailer is called 'Final Hour', by X Ray Dog...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo2_s7J8-JA&feature=player_detailpage

The track is a slow tempo piece, which is of a minor chord like we initially selected. However, the piece is known and renowned as a intensifying movement that is themed very much around the action genre. But with action come violence, which is the main theme we as a group want to show and we all feel this piece of music does exactly that.