Week 9 tute task

For our blog this week we are to write about the 4 elements of the soundtrack in the b grade horror movie "The Woods" (insert extraneous doom music here)

The movie opens with a light hearted old 60's tune, which, at the begining is extraneous. there is light road ambience with the odd bird tweeting and tooting and the sound of the car driving along the road. As the car drives along, the bizare 60's extraneous music transforms into practicle and starts to blare on the cars radio.

The car pulls up to an old mansion/boarding school with great gravel SFX and totally in synch footsteps, door closures etc as the family get out of the car. Most of the SFX are frame accurate.

The first bit of dialogue is said and it is clear, concise and a bit creepy.

It is interesting to note that throughout the short segment of the film that we saw, there was a fantastic ambience that continued without fail.

The scene dragged on and there was a dream sequence. A girl was sitting demonically and let out this insane, high pitched wail that must have been created by a foley artist, or at least manipulated. It was frame accurate and in sync.

Thankfully, the movie finished just before I wet myself from fright.