Opening Sequence Treatment - Music

We will use little or no Sound FX, possibly an exaggerated hammering sound at the knock on the door at the end of the sequence to accentuate enigma, fear and suspense.

For the music we have researched how genre relates to audience and are choosing between ambient electronic music e.g. Kidulthood, Attack the Block which have proven to work well to provide intensity, suspense and hysteria. Seeing as in their opening sequences this music features alongside a seemingly unfriendly urban environment, we decided that this would be our choice of music type.

The proposed track for this genre is music from a group called Noize Index. The song is called ‘the Siren’, downloadable from their SoundCloud page, heard below:
The music is similar to that produced by other artists with liquid drum and bass roots such as Netsky and Pendulum, who are well known by and appealing to our target audience of 16-24s year olds. These can be heard below:

The other option we chose from was upbeat indie/punk rock music, which featured very effectively in Trainspotting with the track 'Lust For Life' by Iggy Pop. Music similar to bands like Jet and The Arctic Monkeys would fit this style as well as appeal to our audience, provide irony and drama as well as a thrilling, action mood to the film. The proposed song for this option was a demo song called ‘Grindy’ from shockwave-sound.com, who produce multiple sample tracks for people to use.

Both of these types of music are popular with the target audience and have proven successful to introduce films with similar themes and locations. Also both artists have their music available to download royalty free and use legally at the users will as long as credit is given to the artist, e.g. in a link in the description for a youtube video.