Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Last House On The Left Sound Deconstruction






  • There is a lot of dialogue used in the trailer
  • Starts with twinkling type of music, sounds as if it would be a rom-com genre of film
  • Abruptly there is a turn in the music a loud sound is used to make the viewer jump as it’s very unexpected, there is no building up to it.
  • Series of loud ‘bang’ with periods of silence inbetween
  • After when the shot the gun shot is repeated  throughout the trailer
  • At a point when the trailer changes and the parents find the body and then pick up  the backing sound to ‘sweet child of mine’ is played till the end
  • The sound is contrapuntal  to the shots being shown, the song sweet child of mine isn’t usually what would go with a scary trailer
  • They subverted the usual convention of using sounds to create fear throughout the trailer that compliment what’s going on in the trailer, instead it gives it a more sinister feel of happy music being played when they are showing blood and death etc
  • Continuous loud bangs are still played through the trailer and a loud scream over the top of the backing sound track

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