Sound, music and sound effects!

As there is no narrative or dialogue in our opening the music is going to be essential in keeping the audience interested. I would like the non diegetic music to be classical but dramatic. The sound needs to move with the story line as this will make the opening more dramatic. We have decided to have no narrative due to our questionnaire results which showed many of our audience suggested narrative/dialogue wasn't an important feature in their opinion to an opening, this will help us target our audience. We need to take into consideration the style of music we want to use because of our Ballet link which stereotypically uses classical music, should this be challenged in our opening?

The first piece of music i have found that i think will be effective in our opening is by Thomas Newman and it is used in the soundtrack of the film American beauty.

I especially like this music because of how it starts slowly and builds up. Its subtle and sweet but also seems quite mysterious. I think if reflects the sound if the deep sea, its very calming and this may be a good contrast to the main characters stressed life style. Finally i think the music is awfully sad and this may help to show how 'Chrissy' feels.

The second piece of music i have found that is equally effective is a piece by Alexandre Desplat its called Childhood, i feel the music is quite dark and equally as sad as my first piece of music. And the smooth continuous sound of the violin builds the tension of the piece.

The next piece of music i have chosen is not one i want to use for our opening but its a great example of how the music can really build in tension and suspense and effect the audience emotionally, and this is what i want our non diegetic music to do. Its my favourite soundtrack ever and i think its amazing! It is from the film inception.