Music in Horror films.

Music in horror films is generally very dramatic and dark, this is to build and promote tension that could give some clues as to what will happen later on in the film. An example of this dark and gloomy music is from the hill have eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df4HaJWfMzI&feature=related 


We've decided that the music in the title sequence will also be very dark, quite quiet, but loud enough to build enough tension to add clues about the rest of the film. This will give the title sequence a creepy and tension built atmosphere, which will encourage the audience to watch the rest of the film, because the initial title sequence provides tension that will build up throughout the film.

We also decided that the main part of the opening sequence will have no music, this will emphasise that the main characters live a normal life, not a very unusual exciting life, which is very stereotypical of most horror films that have been made. This causes the films to emphasise the fact that the events in the film can happen to anyone in any situation, which adds realism, which in turn causes the film to gather more tension and suspense. The only music that we will used will be very sudden and dramatic music when a strange dark figure appears in the mirror, the will cause the sudden event of an unusual figure appearing in the mirror, to be much more of a surprise for the audience, causing them to be drawn in to watch the rest of the film, because they want to know find out why the unusual event occurred.