Soundtrack For The Title Sequence

For our soundtrack we were set the task of finding a piece of music that created a sense of tension and suspense. We needed this as the contents of the parcel is unknown until the latter stages of the title sequence when the chef opens it to reveal the poison. By having a soundtrack like this it build up the tension and encourages the audience to really want to know whats in the small envelope. However it was not as simple as this as the music we had to find couldn't be under copyright, as soundtracks under this law would be the property of an individual, which meant that under law we were not allowed to copy it and use it in our product. As a result it took a while searching through the internet to find a suitable soundtrack that wasn't copyright yet eventually we found a number of fitting songs.

These songs were preposed to all the group members during a discussion and after listening to all of them and playing them along side the title sequence we came to a conclusion that we would use a up-beat chart song suggested by Mariella that would supposedly create excitement and appeal to our primary audience as a popular song. However after applying this soundtrack to the title sequence and playing it back a number of times we realised that it didn't fit as well as we first thought and it made our product look less professional and created a poor build-up of tension. Consequently we decided to change it again as we weren't happy submitting the original soundtrack.

We went back to one of the original tracks we had sampled from the internet. It was more alternative/foreign music composed using some native instruments that we thought were successful in creating suspense and speed. The song also had changes in beat at specific times coinciding with our passovers, this also added to the mysterious side and suggested that something evil was occurring. I think that the soundtrack has been successful considering we had little time at the end of the construction process to find a soundtrack and i believe that it benefitted from the last minute change we made. My only criticism of it is that it may not appeal to some of the younger ages of our target audience, yet i think that it will appeal to the young adults and the secondary audience who are older and more into cultural music.