Sound necessities of our thriller

At the beginning of the thriller it will open with the sound of a slow sickening jewellry box tune, repeated as the character of Scarlett prepares for her venture out into the world of the 1930's. Any non-diagetic sound will be silenced to emphasise this tune, which will bring a larger effect when the jewellry box is slammed and there is silence for about five seconds. We have recorded an old jewellry box sound which we will loop round continuously, it sounds more effective and realistic.
As Scarlett is shown leaving the building (her house) the second piece of music will begin, this will be a classical piano or violinist piece which is simple yet builds up therefore gaining tension throughout the remainder of the into.
We recorded the sound effect of an old tower chiming, since it sounds so definite and classic therefore may merge into our opening well. Therefore we're experimenting now with whether that sound effect could be used to provide a sense of location or emphasise the time zone.

We will add the sound effect of a gun, though a gun is not shown in the clip (due to the likelihood at it looking tacky, from an incorrect time and the difficulties of carrying around a pretend gun in a busy city) the sound effect should make it more enigmatic and more of a shock to the audience. This will be used after a shot of the male character smiling slightly, to make it reasonably easy to follow that the gun shot is most likely from him. Even though a gun will not be featured it's such a stereotypical prop used in Film Noir therefore will only put further emphasis on the genre, we took this inspiration of a gun as an important prop from 'The Third Man' in the sewers when the guards were searching for Harry and the scene came to a conclusion by the shooting of him. This was appropriately dramatic and intense, it built up well and worked with the enigmatic music filled with tension - so this brought us inspiration.

We used a diagetic sound track of a jewelry box similar to that featured in the youtube clip above, yet slightly more sinister, we looped this to create an on-going sinister atmosphere.