Sound Research

                                    

                           Hard Candy (2005)

We decided to include a voiceover in our opening sequence so when we were discussing the sound, we agreed that we didn't want to have anything that was too overwhelming or rich sounding to draw the focus away from the narration. This trailer for the film 'Hard Candy' grabbed my attention as it is exactly the sound we were looking for. It includes ambience made up of sound effects rather than an instrumental and the sharp sounds help to achieve a creepy, dangerous feel and dark mood. Dynamics and texture builds up throughout particularly towards the end which definitely made me feel more on edge so this is something we incorporated into our own soundtrack. After watching the trailer a few times I decided to watch the clip without any sound and found that the sound really does set the mood, enhance the visuals and gives it that thriller factor so with that in mind we hope our own soundtrack will be able to achieve this.