Audio/Sound for the opening

Obviously we understand that one of the main important things in a film is not just what the audience sees on the screen, but what they can hear.

As we want our opening to be simple and effective and not have too many things going on at once we have decided not to use speech in our scene. Although this is a risky decision we have decided to use only an audio track throughout the geration of the opening. Accordingly, our next important decision was which song would we use? Before a discussion of coming up with possible songs, we decided that because our opening is set in the 80's era, we wanted a song that went with the cheesy upbeat vibe of the 80's, therefore we have come to the decision of using the song 'Sussudio' by Phil Collins. We feel that this song would fit perfectly with the costumes and theme that we are going for.

Because our genre of film is thriller/mystery we understand that this song is not the obvious type that you would associate with this genre, but this is something we think will work to our advantage. Because the song will sharply contrast with the events happening on screen, we believe and hope this captures the audience and although may confuse them, their confusion will encourage them to continue to watch. Our inspiration for this is 'American Psycho' when this song is played it contrasts with the action on screen and adds to the stylishness of the film.