Soundscape Running Order

Thriller Name: Murder, the Best Medicine

Sound FX/Music/Dialogue

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Own Foley sound

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When? Moment in narrative. 

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Why?  (To emphasise, suggest, connote, imply, infer, exaggerate, amplify, portray, indicate, highlight etc…)

Seagull Squawking

Alongside the distributor

To create the idea that the film will take place near the sea

Waves

Opening establishing shot

Cementing the idea that the thriller will take place by the sea

Breeze Wind

Alongside the wave sound in the establishing shot

To help show that it is a really rough day with strong winds before the main storm picks up

Chilling string sound

When the detectives enter into the shot

To exaggerate and dramatize the entrance of the two authoritative figures and to show how their investigation is interrupting the peaceful sounds of nature

Footsteps walking on concrete

As the detectives walk across the bridge into the castle

So it sounds like they are walking on concrete

Breeze wind

In the background as they walk outside the castle

To make it sound like they are outside and on the coast

Sinister and creepy ambient background music

Throughout the whole of the piece from the moment the detectives enter into frame

To amplify the thrilling atmosphere and suggest the evil and threat of the castle and its contents

Hollow drum sounds

During shots of the medical tray and medicine.

Suggests the dangerous implications of the tools and mystery of the medicine.

Unsheathing of knife

When the doctor drags it off the tray, when the doctor waves it in the air and when the girl is stabbed.

To illustrate the unnerving sound of the knife and it's dangerous intentions.

Unscrewing bottle cap

When the doctor takes the cap off the medicine

To show the tightly sealed and stored medicine which is being used for evil purposes.

Glugging water

When the doctor pours the medicine into his cloth

To show the viscosity of the medicine and how much is being used for deathly intention.

Girl running and breathing heavily

When the girl is running down the cobbled hill and whilst running past the grate in the gravel floor

To show the panic and exhaustion of the girl as she runs from danger.

Squelching sound effect

When the doctor squeezes his wet rag and when the detectives steps in the puddle

To indicate how full of dangerous medicine the rag therefore portraying its danger, also to show how dank and decrepit the tunnel is.

Footsteps on tiles

When the detectives are walking inside the castle

To show it is set in a castle and they are walking on tiles.

Dripping sound effect

When the detective is walking through the tunnel

To represent the ambonned and wet tunnel showing it is cold and dangerous.

Footsteps on stairs

When the detectives walk up and down stairs around the castle

To show their slowed rate of step as they change altitude on stairs.

Footsteps on gravel

When the detective walks across the gravel and when the girl runs across the gravel

To imply they are walking/running on gravel.

Breeze wind

When the detective reaches up to the grate until the girl runs down into the gun room

To show they are on the coast and outside.

Deep piano notes

When the doctor suddenly appears above the grate

To amplify the threat and underlying presence of the doctor.

Stabbing sound effect

When the doctor stabs the girl

To infer the deep and violent action of murder and reflect that she has been stabbed forcefully.

Falling body sound effect

When the girl falls back onto the crates

To show her dead body has collapsed onto wooden crates heavily after she has been stabbed.

Female scream

After the girl is stabbed

To indicate the girls immense pain and terrorous reaction after being stabbed.

Male gasp

When the detective looks into the empty room

To represent the immense shock shown by the detective that there investigation has not led to the uncovery of the corpse or the doctor (criminal).

High pitch melodic ring

A shot of the wooden crates that the girl died on and a used surgical tray

To connote that the crime is unsolved and there is a great deal of mystery surrounding this crime in relation to where the body is and who was the criminal.