Terror And Suspense: The First Alien Film

For example, in the nut sorting room, when Veruca’s shoes are clicking on the floor, which is a diegetic sound. This creates the effect that everything has suddenly gone very quiet and anticipation is growing. But, in Big Fish, Tim Burton uses sound to make people feel many different things. For example, in the town of Spectre, when the townspeople were dancing, the diegetic sounds were all of the happy dancing music. This creates the effect of happiness.

I love horror movies. As much as we would not want these actual events to occur, the suspense is riveting. The horror movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a great example of dramatic irony. The exact form of music that starts to play in the background; gets us cringing. All awhile, the audience sees what is about to happen, yet, the character

Then the hum grows louder and the tapping turns into clattering, as if someone is hitting a metal sheet. By the time that all the items are in place, the noise has become metallic crashing, a screeching noise like a whistling kettle, all underlaid by a low, monotonous hum. This build of tension is created using entirely sound. The videogames also use restricted vision extremely well. The horror aspect is almost entirely based on your character's vision being incredibly restricted, with predominantly dark locations illuminated by torchlight. For the most part, you are aware of a monster being nearby without knowing where or what it is. This helps give a feeling of powerlessness as well as fear and tension, which I am hoping to include in my film.

Along with background music, sound effects play more of a role on the way we feel than many moviegoers think, and "although the function of sound effects is primarily atmospheric, they can also be precise sources of meaning in film" (Giannetti, 225). When the

Inglourious Basterds also uses sound to evoke emotions in the viewer using specific sound effects. One example is the sound effects of when the Jews are being annihilated in cold-blood through the floor boards of the home in the opening scene. The sound that the viewer is hearing in this scene does not have flesh wound sounds or any screaming or yelling from the Jews. Instead it focuses on the firing of the Nazi soldiers guns and the sound of the bullets entering the floor. By using this type of technique it elicits emotion in two ways. One is the feeling of sympathy towards the helpless Jewish family and it also give the audience feelings of great dislike towards Colonel Landa.

Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film Psycho is one of the best horror movies in history. It is famous as well as notorious even with today’s high standards. The movie is about a secretary, Marion, who embezzles $40,00 from a client of her employer. She goes on the run and ends up staying at a very remote and creepy hotel. There she meets Norman Bates, a man who seems to be under a lot of control of his mother. Marion ends up being murdered in the famous “shower scene” by Norman’s mother, however, at the end we end up finding out that the mother was actually Norman who had developed a double personality of his mother. While this movie’s story and plot are outstanding to stay the least, the movie’s success also had a lot to do with the sound used within in key scenes. The sound also helped play a major role in the movie’s themes, which I believe to fear, and guilt.

It is used to create emotional investments in the characters and stories being resented. George Lucas once said that, “Sound is 50% of the movie going experience and I’ve always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as what they see” (Mellor 2011) Many people do not realize how important sound is in a scene of any type of performance until the existing sound has been replaced by a different sound. An example would be removing the sound and music from a scene in a horror movie and replacing it with a different light-hearted tune. The scene is no longer scary and frightening but funny and amusing. This example shows how sound has to be done well to convey the correct emotions of the audience should be feeling. If a filmmaker wants the audience to be moved to tears by a certain scene, they need to choose the correct music for the scene or the audience will not have the desired reaction. Sound is used to communicate important information to audience members, serve as a symbol or leitmotif, help to situate the audience in a specific location in time or a specific place, create or strengthen a brand’s attributes, and create a sense of realism

The director also uses audio to enhance a scene. Using digetic and non-digetic sounds, he uses a range of digetic sounds for example the crickets and the ominous music for non-digetic sound. The audio is placed in very specific places for example when they show a close up the dead girl a sound of what is presumably a machete is played, this depicts the girl was killed with a

In Ridley Scott, Aliens we encounter every little boys dream come true...contact. And not just of any kind, aliens. We watch as we are transported through space as cold and desolate, black, nothingness comes to life. Life of inside of us the dream becomes a nightmare. Survival becomes the keyword as the crew dwindles to one, but never forget Jonesy with the nine lives. Visuals and sound effects in this epic are state of the art for its time. We can appreciate the effort it must have taken for them then and stand in awe to where we are now. These intense visuals of the aliens against the white backdrop of the ship stand out, creating even more drama unable to forget that the alien does to belong. How easily it has taken over the sound so crisp

The mood would change in a film if the sound effect were waves and completely opposite if something was being blown up they would both create moods of calming and anxiety. They can add another layer to the film not only is the scene one layer and sets the mood the sound effects that are associated with that scene also enhance that mood. For example, if you are watching a movie and the scene is woods you feel adventures and outdoorsy, but add some crickets and birds to the sound that would really enhance the ambiance (Hunt, Marland, Rawle 2010).

Sound plays a significant part in all movies and one of the most interesting of all the sound techniques would be the use of nondiegetic music. In the movie Apocalypse Now, there is a double disc soundtrack with thirty tracks on it. The one song on there that has the most meaning would The Doors song “The End”. This song not only set the mood for the scene waiting in Saigon and the move as a whole but is also used to foreshadow the death of Coronal Kurtis. Mr. Coppola, the director of the film, was a genius for picking this song to represent the movie. It not only fits the movie with the sounds of helicopter but the words alone have significant meaning to the movie. Along

The opening credit starts with a thunder sound which immediately get the audience’s attention. Then the electronic music starts to play with a lot of unusual noises along the visuals and at the end we hear “will bring you closer to god”. The opening soundtrack perfectly sets the mood for audiences that they will be introduced to dark and mysterious story. The music involved throughout the movie are dark tones that intensify the sense of thrilling for each scene. Moreover, the sound designs such as car sirens, trains, neighbors talking and etc. helps to create a theme for the movie. Best example of using sound design and music is the last scene when detective Mills found out that John Doe killed his wife and detective Somerset is trying to stop Mills before he kills John Doe. The intense music gets louder when get close to the final climax and the sound of the helicopter helps to make the scene more

Alien is truly amazing from beginning to end as the hands on effort and imagination of Ridley Scott is stunning, even in this day and age of special effects and CGI. The designs of Giger are wildly indigenous and memorable and the editing by Terry Rawlings was the best thing I seen for a 1979 movie, making for a perfect storm of a horror flick. No one who has seen Alien will ever forget the dinner scene, one of the most dramatic even to be shown to a thoughtless viewer. Even the actors were unaware of what was coming down, maximizing the effect of the event.

Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) is a science fiction film about the clash between technology and the human being. It is especially relevant to the theme of birth and reproduction. At the end, there is a struggle between two species for survivor. The clip presents the first meeting between the high technological human being and the alien. They are both a treat for each other, but at the same time the both need each other. The entire clip could be divided on three parts, the first one at the entrance into the alien spaceship, the second part, the discovery of the dead alien, and the third part, the discovery of the eggs chamber. The protagonists are three members of the Nostromo´s crew: Dallas (Tom Skerritt) Kane (John Hurt) and Lambert (Veronica

thin sound such as a flute can be used to set a mood of fear and horror. Again