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This is the beginning of our sound track. When we first started looking into the style of music we were going to use or create we were finding it hard to come to any conclusion. We then turned to other films and youtube for inspiration. We decided to distort a nursery rhyme and put our own twist on it. We then started researching different nursery rhymes and their meanings. We decided that 'Mary Mary quite contrary"was the one we wanted to use because of the various meanings behind it. One of which is the idea of the following: "Mary is addressed first-hand about all of the poor saps she's sent to the graveyard (her garden). The silver bells refer to instruments of torture that crushed the thumb with the tightening of a screw, and cockleshells were torture devices that were attached to the genitals" This is quite a dark meaning and idea of the rhyme however we thought it was appropriate as the character Andrew has a very dark and shady past. (http://www.cracked.com/article_16576_the-disturbing-origins-5-common-nursery-rhymes_p2.html)
We decided to look on youtube for scary nursery rhymes to see what others had created and how they created it because we wanted to know if it was possible and if it would actually sound as freaky as we intended it to. 

The video at the bottom of this list help to inspire us quite a lot, not only for the high quality and the chills it gave us but because it was made on garage band which is the software we wanted to use. This made us believe that it would be possible for us to create something that too could give us or others chills and enhance the effect of our footage. After hearing this Jess told us that it reminded her of a sound track in the film "Insidious" as it too used a nursery rhyme but with an added crackling/old effect. So we decided to look into it and see what it sounded like. 

after listening to this we were even more inspired as we were feeling rather scared and that was without even watching the imagery. We thought by replicating something similar to these that we had looked at it would help support our sub genre of horror. 

The third film/ sound track we looked at was "The Others" . This film uses a whispering effect which helps develop the thriller genre as it creates the "creepy" and "mysterious" effect that thrillers generally have 

We then went into the sound booth and started recording. We created two different tracks, one with a 'epic diva' effect that made our voices echo and the other with a 'deeper vocals' effect that gave a dark deep gloomy effect to our voices. These are both going to be very useful and we indent to use them specifically when the killer is shown. 

We are also going to create some sound effects by using instruments that we will borrow from the music department but we will also create them using sound effects on garage band and possibly by ones all ready made that are free to use. The other effects we need are sticks breaking, wind, foot steps, birds, crashes, bangs, (possibly pots and pans clashing) glass braking, scraping and thumps. We want these sound effects as we think they will help create tension and suspense. 

There is a short clip in the first scenes when Charlie is running around the lakes where we would like to add some sounds that involve violins and possibly other sting instruments. This is because we believe violins create a lot of suspense and tension. We noticed in the recently released film "The Hunger Games - Catching Fire" that a lot of suspense and emotion was generated from the sound track that involved violins being frequently used.