Non Diegetic Sound Ideas

Non diegetic sounds

Typical non Diegetic sounds that feature in horror movie trailers tend to be big bangs, eerie sounds, added  music that creates tension, orchestra, piano, contrapuntal sounds and stabs. These non diegetic sounds are added in a horror movie to emphasise the moment of that scene. Music adds more tension to the scene because people get scared when there is a build up to a jumpy moment and so it gets us ready for something big. Usually the added music starts of slow and calm within the trailer then the pace gets faster as it goes on. A stab is one of the most effective types of non diegetic sound that is added in horror movies and its trailer, a stab is a short, sudden, burst of sound which is used to potentially make the audience jump. A stab is a crucial sound to have in the trailer since its one thing that the target audience always remembers. Stab sounds can coincide with a moment of drama and help to heighten the existing drama. Some sounds appear to add tension that matches the scene in the trailer/ movie, it just gives that extra fear factor that the audience want to hear since if it was only dialogue, it would not be as effectively scary. Eerie music is one main sound effect that is added to create tension. For example, in the grave encounters film trailer, sounds are used to create tension throughout, such as deep hums and then sudden stabs of sound. 

Our ideas

What we have decided to use for our non diegetic sounds are existing sounds from other movies and trailers. This will be an easy option since we would not have the high quality sound software to create these non diegetic sounds. We will use a range of sounds from contrapuntal music to stabs and eerie sounds.  We will use a range of sounds from other types of media like games, music and TV programmes. The soundtracks that we would consider using is from grave encounters, the devil inside, call of duty black ops zombie mode etc. We will also use sounds from websites that offer sound effects. All these would be added to the trailer to create a unique sound to it and effectively create a frightening trailer. We plan to use eerie and strange sounds for the beginning of the trailer, to build up the tension for the disruption in the trailer, these sounds will include a few stabs and deep hums. Contrapuntal sound will be used for our fast montage, because instead of using loud quick sounds throughout the fast montage we have decided to use the sound of a enhanced heartbeat which will get faster and then blend into eerie music, and then a stab of sound.

These are a few different sounds that we found on youtube that could be included into our horror movie trailer, because we feel that have that eerie factor to them. The first video is a sequence of eerier sounds which could be used at any point in our trailer, because it will create tension successfully and will lead up nicely to the build up of different sounds. The two game soundtracks include creepy piano music, which could be used at the start of the trailer for the narrative or at the end whilst the credits appear on screen.