The use of nursery rhymes to create fear and suspense.

By using nursery rhymes it allows the audience to delve into their past making them scarier. If we use a child protagonist nursery rhymes would fit in really well.

here are some inspiration examples of how i can use nursery rhymes to create fear and suspense.

• this is my favourite one of all the nursery rhymes because it has so many different reasons why it is scary.
•  it uses a violin sound over the top of the nursery rhyme that almost represents a child screaming.
• it then uses thoses violins to shound like wind blowing by using a low tremelo.
• at the end it uses a slight drum beat to sound like a train going over a track
• then it makes the sound of a train whistle and fades to end the song which leaves the audience one the edge of their seat and leaves them wanting to know more.
• one thing i would change on this though is you cant really hear the nursery rhyme as much as i would like and so i would turn the gain up.

• this is scary because the voice is uncomfortably high pitched.
• it also has no backing or sound and so is just purely voice bringing a sort of creepiesness to it.
• i like the childlike giggle at the end of this one because it makes a noise that would usually not be scray but would be cute and turns it to give the audience chills.

• this one is not necessarilly scary it is more creepy.
• the gain on the voice haas been turned up and the EQ has been turned down causing the almost tinny efect on the voice.
• just like the one before there is no backing track to it and so it causes the audience to listen to the voice asnd words making it scarier for them.
• one thing i dont like about this one is at the end when the child says 'we all fall down' she says it going up the major scale. this almost breaks the creepy effect and changes the mood of the song we just heard.

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How to make music scary

Scary music is music that is uncomfortable to listen to. Some things composers do to make music sound scary are:

Using minor scales instead of major scales because minor scales sound more emotive than major scales. The verse part of "Teddy Bear's Picnic" is scary because it is completely made up of the minor scale where as the chorus part uses both making it less effect to create fear.

Atonality and dissonance: Your mind's ear wants to hear a melody. By not using any scale at all, it keeps you from having something comfortable to listen to, this sets up fear in the audience. This is reinforced when the notes don't add up to a single chord, instead they clash with each other and become uncomfortable.

Lack of meter - Bach's "Tocatta in D minor" has a scary feel to it. this is because he does uses alot of uneven spaces between the notes, thus throwing off your mind's ear's desire for rhythmic balance.

Extreme voicing: Using only very low notes gives a dread feeling and similarly, using only very high notes also feels uncomfortable to your mind's ear.

Literalism: An example of this is Bernard Hermann's score for "Psycho", where violins sound like a woman screaming.

Diagetic Sound in Horror Films - Seyi

Use of screams - e.g. Amityville Horror

• In order to show fear, an effective method of conveying it must be used, screaming is a prime example
• A person screams when put in a situation where they fear something or are in danger and wish to notify someone and in most horror films someone is in danger and they wish to notify someone so screams are extremely useful
• Screams differ between genders, stereotypically women are the ones who scream in comparison to men, this is utilised extremely well in this film as the screams are mainly female, by doing so you get a high pitched shriek due to the fact that they are women, this shriek cuts through the air so much more than a males scream so the viewer will either be scared by it or alerted to it faster as it catches your attention quicker.
• Also, the scream can make the person seem more helpless which indicates that they are going to die, due to the situation you can see on screen e.g. a girl screaming in the presence of the person who is going to kill them.

Use of Gore - e.g. Flesh eating etc.

• Films such as zombie films e.g. Resident Evil where lots of gore is present, a squelchy sound generally occurs for things such as flesh eating or bloody flesh dropping.
• This is a subtle thing within horror films however it has a great effect overall within a scene
• In some cases it can be used to show you that someone has been wounded etc. however in some it can be used to show the extent of someones damage as that noise cannot be made without a liquid and in this case it is blood.

Use of Villains/Monsters 

• The sound that monsters create must create fear in not only the actors ears but also ours
• Factors such as growls etc. can create suspense and give us an indication into what the victim is dealing with, sometimes if the film is trying to show a mutated form of a common creature e.g. a mutant spider it will often make any noise that a spider is known to make, however, if the creature is relatively unknown or made up e.g. an alien improvisation must be used however it gives the director the chance to exaggerate and create a bigger effect
• If in certain cases it is not a monster but a villain e.g. a serial killer, the person must sound deranged in their speech and sounds created by movement such as dragging feet.