Adding Sound

To create a better ambience for my piece, I went on to Youtube and looked into various gothic choir-like sounds that would in keep with my products desired genre and atmosphere. Here are some of the different sounds I looked at:
This trailer music really adds a specific tone and atmosphere to the piece, rising gradually throughout to reach a climax. The sound begins in quite a chilling way, with the use of the piano adding sorrow to the piece and naturally replicating the feelings of the family of the lost girl. The building tension would fit well with my piece, and fit perfectly into the actions happening on screen at different plot points.

This piece, although helping to build tension, I don't believe it would suit my genre of soap opera. This piece is too fast paced for my trailer, which is fairly slow to begin with, finally picking up pace towards the end. I feel that this music would take away from the trailer I have created and perhaps make it seem more farcical rather than as a serious, professional, independent piece.

Although this piece is very climactic in certain parts, I believe it isn't as serious or sorrowful for the storyline. However it does suit the connotations of the police force and the hectic lives they lead. This piece would go better with a more action packed trailer based on crime in general, rather than the storyline I have created. The sound is also too fast paced in the opening score, and sounds more electronic than I would like to use on my own piece. Having evaluated the pros and cons of all of the pieces, I chose the epic and dramatic trailer music (the first Youtube clip) as my soundtrack. It reaches different climactic states throughout the duration of the song, and having put it into my filming, it fits perfectly with the action on screen, rising and falling and building up tension in exactly the right moments. I wanted my piece to have this certain gothic ambience in order to show the audience that the piece was meant to be quite thrilling and serious.