https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BXEbdUrsDQ - Creaking Sound Effect
The creaking door effect would be a great sound to implement
in our trailer as our main concept for our trailer is for the storyline to be a
paranormal possession. The creaking door would enable a spooky, uncanny
atmosphere to derive in the trailer and so presenting fear amongst our
audience. It would also indicate that
there is an evil spirit doing harmful things as the creaking of the door in
most films show that there's an unwanted presence following the victim. Saying this, in many popular horror films
this effect is used and always prepares the audience for some fright, such
films include; Insidious and Sinister. By including this effect in a trailer
specifically will make sure that those 30 seconds-1 minute leaves the viewer
frightened before the initial release of the full length film. The creaking
door effect is something that creates mystery as the audience are not sure what
to expect which is what a horror is about, it’s a typical convention that is
used but still constructs a series of horrendous, ghostly moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOqglrTeyo - Whisper Effect
A whispering effect is definitely something to be included in
the trailer. This effect is what leaves the audience on the edge of the seats
as if frightful and almost makes you feel as though someone is whispering in
your ear. The impact that it has is that it enables the editor to build
suspense and build a tempo to influence the pace of the scene to end it with a
huge bang! To summarise, it would enable us to build up the scene and increase
the pace and end it with a huge heart-racing tremor, whether it’s being that
the audience are face to face with the demonic creature or the audience are
seeing through the eyes of the victim being trapped in an abandoned house or
room; a typical horror convention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbiGLA24bTU - Evil laugh effect
An evil
laugh effect will create a sense of the evil antagonist inviting the audience
into the film and initially placing them in the position of the protagonist.
Placing this effect in a scene in the trailer where everything is at a slow
pace and silence would encourage the fear factor as the silence and dawdling
pace would highlight the laugh even further and produces a sensation of
suspense and uncertainty and again the audience will not know what to
anticipate. As well as this, imposing this effect in a long shot would develop
a mysterious atmosphere as it will almost exaggerate the noise as the distance
would only make the effect echo and leave the audience questioning; who is it?
Where is this noise coming from? What should I assume will happen next?
Having
screams in a horror trailer is a common characteristic seen in most horror
trailers, the idea of having the screams in our trailer would be placed at the
end to leave the audience wanting to know what happens next, it also allows us
to build up the pace and scene with a POV shot, which then the scream would end
it all. The screaming would symbolise a
sense of thrill and terror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7O8_kWeOc - Nursery Rhymes
Implementing nursery rhymes is something as a team we agreed
we would place in the trailer. Importing something that signifies purity and
innocence into a shadowy and obscure atmosphere makes it just that little bit
horrendous. The trailers we watched that had this effect made illustrated
further terror, and indicate to the audience that a child is in a dangerous
situation and that a powerful force is using the purity to manipulate evilness.
The typical nursery rhyme that has been used in horror films is the Jack in the
box melody or ringa-ringa roses song, both of these have elements of fright
that make the audience think the worst. Having a nursery rhyme as an
introduction for the trailer would present intensity of the trailer and placing
it at the end would enable a scream sound effect to produce from it. Having
either of these techniques would have the same qualities of producing the same
level of terror.
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