At the start of our opening sequence 'Dead Giveaway', when the opening credits are shown, birds are heard chirping loudly and this immediately gives the audience an idea that our film is set outside amongst nature. Whilst the birds are chirping, a deep drone is heard beneath this which expresses a chilling sound and identifies our film as a thriller.
Then as soon as our film title appears, the bird chirping becomes quieter and as the drone is still held. Five single notes of the piano are played in a high pitch which signifies a spooky and haunting story. The music then dramatically cuts off when the group of teens portrayed in our sequence drop the dead body on the forest ground. Since this is quite a shocking moment, the fact that the music comes to a sudden halt is effective in the sense that it grabs the audience's attention.
Birds are still heard singing and chirping in the background underneath our character's dialogue because we thought the peaceful connotations of nature contrasted well with thriller genre and the chaos that occurs in our opening sequence.
We tried snapping twigs next to the microphone as this sound startles the anxious female character, Jenny. However, this wasn't loud enough when we heard it back on iMovie and we decided to go to www.sound-effects-library.com and found various twig snap soundbites from this website and included them in our sequence. Furthermore, we found an audio clip of foxes howling which added to the eerie atmosphere we were aiming to create.
At the end, the teens run away from the scene and another deep drone is heard and a different piano sequence is played in a minor key which foreshadows danger and evokes the vulnerability of the characters.
Sophiya Ali
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