Music research

I have researched music for our opening sequence. I have analysed some opening sequences of hollywood films and the music in the first 2 minutes.

In the film opening 'Mechanic' the opening music is very latin which straight away reveals a code to the audience for the enigma  in the film. The music at first was made from piano and drums but then moved on to low drums, guitar and rattling noises. Although this type of music doesn't suit our opening sequence, i think it is a very good way of establish the place where our film is set. The music stays the same for a while without any perticular volume raising for the title etc.


In the opening sequence of the film 'Maxiumum Conviction' the main instruments used at the start are a trumpet and drums (bass). This is conventional for this type of film genre. The trumpet consists of long notes and the drum doesn't appear frequently. This changes as the soundtrack progresses, the trumpet is played in short notes and a violin is mainly being played. The beat of the drum appears every 3 seconds, adding tension with every beat. I think the use of just the violin at the beggining and then adding the drum and trumpet for a short time is very effective, as it builds tension, breaking the long notes of violin.