0.02secs - already a sound boom to open the trailer, followed by contrapuntal/asynchronous sounds of police car sirens against the opening image of the city and Soho 'backstreets' - the sound boom is used throughout most, if not all crime/thriller trailers and so we will want to use it as well. The use of asynchronous sound is also extremely effective here and we will want to create a similar effect.
0.10secs - sounds of an alarm going off - adhere to the crime/thriller genre and keep the audience on the edge of their seat, which is a desired effect especially at the early moments of a trailer like this. We would like to play around with non-diegetic sound, such as alarm sounds and other 'tension-building' Foley sounds to create different effects at different moments throughout our trailer.
0.15secs - a form of soundtrack begins (the sound of the ticking clock over the top of running music that adheres to the thriller/crime genre). The ticking clock is extremely effective as it not only follows the storyline of Statham's character running out of time as he is trying to escape from the 'bad guys' but also creates suspense, which is the desired effect at this moment in the trailer. We would again like to create something similar and hopefully our music producer, after watching our finished trailer will be able to fit an interesting, yet suspenseful piece of music over the top.
0.21secs - They employ an almost sci-fi style sound boom throughout the trailer at certain moments of tension/suspense. These are extremely effective despite being asynchronous to the images displayed on the screen. This is again, a good use of -non-diegetic sound to create suspense amongst the audience, which is something we would like to recreate.
0.32secs - voice of a man on the phone being played over the top of Statham's characters making himself 'at home' in someone else's house. This is useful as it suggests a lot about the storyline and keeps the audience up to date with what is happening thus far in the trailer.
0.40secs - first bit of 'real' dialogue between Statham's character and the 'love interest' in the film. I particularly like the way they waited 40 seconds before any conversations emerge amongst certain characters in the film/trailer.
0.44secs - Sci-Fi style soundtrack begins at this point after Statham's character says, 'I need to get my life back together' - this suggests that there will be a series of shots representing his character improving the quality of his life. However, the crime/thriller nature of the soundtrack, with the eerie sound booms and the fast flowing pace of the music suggests that Statham is going to take advantage of 'crime' in order to 'get his life back together'. This is an excellent example of how the soundtrack can parallel the storyline, running throughout the trailer and has been an influence to us when thinking about the sound in our film.
1.05secs - sound booms (brooding orchestral noise) used throughout especially during the fight/chase scenes but used as well during the moments, where crime is being shown on camera as seen in the image below where a 'trade-off' of some sort is taking place. We would like to use these traditional thriller foley sounds and add them to our trailer in order to not only adhere to the genre of our film but also to create suspense throughout.
Throughout - soundtrack is used especially during the montage towards the end of the trailer and is 'mixed' together with foley sounds to create tension. Dramatic singing is used to highlight the storyline. Brooding orchestral music is something we will want our producer to make over the top of our trailer, especially during the montage scene and is something we will have to use in order to properly adhere to the thriller/crime genre. However, we will definitely want to our producer to add his own twist on the soundtrack and so will give him some artistic license to experiment with the trailer.
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