The style of music is a very important choice we had to make in the post-production of our 2 minute film opening, which required us to look into the inner workings of the Sci-Fi genre. We took great inspiration from the scores of Prometheus and Alien which are iconic Sci-Fi films.
Both these films have classical style, swelling scores which add to the viewer's experience magnificently. While furthering our research, we discovered the quote from roundhouse.cc which was that 'Alien features a menacingly beautiful orchestral score with an eclectic use of ambient noise.' This quotation was very important to us as a group because we plan to use lots of diegetic and ambient noise to create a real and gritty environment.
We are aware that strings are often used in Sci-Fi scores and so we endeavoured, when deciding upon the type of music we wanted in the film opening, to base it mostly upon the use of strings. We were lucky enough to have two A Level music students compose our score exactly to the footage so it fit perfectly from the beginning.
We plan for our film opening to begin with a black screen and non-diegetic voices reading news reports seemingly from a zombie apocalypse catastrophe. In order to give the impression that this was a widespread issue, we recorded some fake reports ourselves in English accents which were specific to our storyline - alluding to the lizard-style zombies that feature in the film opening, and we took extracts from free sound websites that were American fake reports.
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