Sound Influences

Sound influences - Rest of Film

One of our influences when thinking about the soundtrack was music to, 'Psycho'. Not only is the soundtrack excellent, but the film is directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock is a major influence due to the fact that he is often known as, 'the master of suspense'. Films, such as 'North by North West' and 'The 39 Steps' have been big influences for Charlie and I, when deciding on what type of film we want to do. The 'Psycho' soundtrack is very good as it creates suspense fantastically well, which is what we want to do in our film. The survey we took showed that many people like films that create tension and suspense and 'Psycho' undoubtedly does this, especially through the soundtrack and so making it a strong influence for us.

Bernard Hermann, the writer of the 'Psycho' soundtrack is another influence as he has written the music for many of Hitchcock' movies. One of the movies he wrote a fantastic soundtrack for is,'Vertigo', again directed by Hitchcock, which similar to, 'Psycho' creates suspense and tension all throughout. The part from 24 mins onwards is especially good at doing this.

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