Music and sound effects ideas for movie opening

After doing some research, we have found free, non copyrighted horror sound effects and music which we think will be appropriate for our movie opening.

This video consists of a variety of different sound effects which include ones which would make the audience jump, there are also some very good tension building sound effects. They are very appropriate and match the genre of our movie.

This is a very long piece of music, lasting almost 10 minutes. It is very dark, starting off slow then gradually getting higher and faster, raising the tension. It is the type of music that would excite and scare the audience as they would be waiting for the climax to happen.

This mix consists of 13 horror instrumentals. Not all of these are suitable, as some of them climax too late or seem to be aimed at a different sub-genre of horror than ours. The tracks which we thought could possibly work were track number one: Moonlight and Roses by Lee Rosevere, track number 8: The Crazies Are Out Tonight by Dylan Palme and track number 13: Awaken From A Nightmare by Silver Process.

Production Schedule

Production Scheduling

Script for Ex-Terminate

Here is the script for our original idea for our movie. However this is no longer our script as we have made changes to the treatment. We wasn't very fond of this script because it involved too much dialogue, which decreased the scary mood for the audience. Also, it took up too much time, it overrun our time limit of two minutes. There wasnt' enough of a tension build up which there should always be at the beginning of a horror movie.

For our new treatment, we decided not to have any speech. This is because the opening of our movie changed to a chase scene which does not need dialogue. We believed that less speech and more tension music would have a scarier effect on the audience. The lack of speech confuses the audience more, as without speech they are almost unable to identify exactly what is going on and why.

Old and new Storyboard for our movie

Here is the storyboard we began to create for the first treatment of our movie. However, this had to be changed as we changed our treatment. The new storyboard for our movie is below this one.


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Here is the storyboard for our new movie opening
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