Sound Influences

Sound Influences - for panning shots (2nd influence)

'The Third Man' directed by Carol Reed in 1949, has a much more unconventional soundtrack to your more usual 1940's film noir. Usually, you would hear heavy orchestral music, but Reed decided to use a solo Zither (played by Anton Karas). This creates an extremely interesting sound and stands out amongst many other Film Noir movies of the time. Although, this soundtrack is slightly different to what we have decided on doing, it was certainly an influence in the deciding stage. We strongly considered using similar style music in our panning shots of London scene, but decided to go with the more classic film noir Jazz music, as we felt it fit in better with our opening sequence.

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