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The Birds Clip Evaluation
With re editing this clip from Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds', I included the orchestral music to the scene to modernise it and see if I could replicate the suspenseful nature of the scene with the inclusion of music. The clip sees one of the characters walking in on an empty house, only to find out that her husband/friend/neighbour has been savagely attacked and killed by a flock of birds.
The sounds I used was a mixture of Hollywood strings (which features many violins that sound like that they're from other Hollywood productions) and has some science fiction elements hidden in there, I chose an instrument for the main theme to make it sound like a B- movie horror film. This film has the premise of a B- movie, too, so I thought that it would be a good idea to include strange extra- terrestrial sounds to hint at a possible science fiction back story for the attacking birds. During the period of the clip where Mrs. Brenner (the woman seen in the clip) is walking through the hallways of the silent house, I had the Hollywood strings play on one one for a long time to build tension musically, until I stopped it at a certain point.
When Mrs. Brenner finds Farmer Fawcett's dead body, the clip originally had no music as it zoomed in on the farmer's plucked out eyes. With my re edited clip, I included a few seconds of a heavy guitar riff called Mosh Pit, which gives out a heavy/death metal vibe which is commonly used in a lot of modern horror films, so I incorporated it into my clip. I got a mixture of a classic Hollywood orchestra, 80's B- movie science fiction synthesiser type music, and then a small heavy metal tune, so it covers 3 different eras of different theatrical musical styles from horror films throughout the genres run, more specifically 60's- 00's.
I think that the inclusion of the music that I made in GarageBand adds a very good effect, in some cases it makes the film seem more cinematic and dramatic, whilst also keeping in theme with Hitchcock's original campy 1960's horror tone.
When Mrs. Brenner finds Farmer Fawcett's dead body, the clip originally had no music as it zoomed in on the farmer's plucked out eyes. With my re edited clip, I included a few seconds of a heavy guitar riff called Mosh Pit, which gives out a heavy/death metal vibe which is commonly used in a lot of modern horror films, so I incorporated it into my clip. I got a mixture of a classic Hollywood orchestra, 80's B- movie science fiction synthesiser type music, and then a small heavy metal tune, so it covers 3 different eras of different theatrical musical styles from horror films throughout the genres run, more specifically 60's- 00's.
I think that the inclusion of the music that I made in GarageBand adds a very good effect, in some cases it makes the film seem more cinematic and dramatic, whilst also keeping in theme with Hitchcock's original campy 1960's horror tone.
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