In order to have an idea of what type of soundtrack I should have for our thriller sequence opening I looked back on our preliminary research. In our preliminary research we researched the top 100 thrillers as voted by thousands of IMDB users, I decided to look at the soundtracks of the top ten thrillers as voted by the public to see how they used them. The thrillers were:
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather 2
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Dark Knight
5. Rear Window
6. El Secreto de Sus Ojos
7. Fight Club
8. Psycho
9. The Usual Suspects
10. The Silence of the Lambs
All the soundtracks that I listened to mirrored the the state of mind of the antagonist/protagonist. ‘Psyhco’ which is most revlevant to our thriller mirrored the use of violins and high paced and high pitched music mirrored the mind of the antagonist as it reflected that he is dangerous and unpredictable and because there are so many different sounds shows the different aspects the antagonist has to him which makes him more sinister. The soundtrack for ‘Pulp Fiction’ makes us immediatly identify that it is an action thriller. From researching all these soundtracks I know that our soundtrack has to make it recognizable that our thriller is a psychological one.
