Thriller Music analysis

Thriller music analysis

The choice of music is very important throughout the whole of the film, it needs to link with each scene helping to complement it. The music can change everything about a scene and the whole film, it is vital that the choice of music does not overpower everything else but helps to build tension and atmosphere.

I have an example of a good thriller underneath, I think this piece is effective in bring the audience in the scene and setting an intense atmosphere for the audience. Its like the beat is building up to a climax where something dramatic and unexpected happens, the pause is very effective as it seems like we are waiting for something to happen in that moment. In some ways it gives a mystery feeling when listening to the music putting us in a thriller type situation.

The second piece I have chosen starts off simple and slow tempo other instruments start to drift in getting louder, it soon starts to build a lot of tension quickly. It gives the audience something to think about and feel, even though their are elements of maybe action within the piece it is a good way to build up tension in a thriller film and have aspects like a mystery feeling and then switching up to faster helped to build suspense, then ending as how the it began but it fades away. I think it was brilliant and I would conceder that for my thriller opening.