I am really happy with the effect, I like the melancholy tone of the music as I feel like it adds to the sadness of the opening sequence and therefore encourages the audience to sympathise with the protagonist, Emma, very early on in the story. It also ties the whole thing together well making it feel like a more cohesive opening rather than just a montage of different film clips.
The same riff runs all the way through however, I would like to add more to it, possibly a drum beat, to make it louder and more intense as the flashbacks become more and more frantic. This will help the whole thing build to the climax of Emma opening her eyes.
The music is not constant all the way through, there are some sections of the opening when it stops such as the first gunshot. This is because I would like this section of the opening to be in complete silence as it is a shocking moment which is enhanced by the jolt in the sound and leads nicely into the introduction of the beeps. However I don't want this to be too abrupt and disrupt the narrative so I will show this to my target audience to see how they react.
At the end, when Emma screams, there needs to be some change in the sound. At the moment it just stops however I feel like this may cause the tension the sound had been building up to be lost. Therefore I might experiment with other ways of doing it, maybe fading out the sound so it's not as severe however this may also just cause disintegration of the tension. I will also ask my target audience about the effect they think this sound had on the ending.
After the titles I reintroduced the sound, again increasing the cohesion of the opening. I thought this might nicely round off the piece and make the audience feel more comfortable in the world of the film as they are led into it with a now familiar sound.
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