conclution

Conclusion

I have come the conclusion that music puts so much emotion and feeling behind a film or a certain seen , from the notorious shower scan by Alfred Hitchcock to the seduction of Elizabeth in Braham stockers Dracula music had a grip on the viewer and take you there into the film as if you were there your very self.
I have look at three different film all from different time periods from the early 60’s to 2006 these all share the same genre but all have different styles of music but they all are horrifying and do a relay good job of making you feel either scared or in pure horror.
If take the earliest film “psycho” this was setting a milestone for all horror films either to live up to this or go home and try again, this film for it time was amazing and very influential thought out the years so many films have taken the music and used it to either represent a killing (the classic shower part) by either take the 3 note staccato or the high pitched violins to, for example if you take Dracula when Lucy is in the red dress and is looking for Dracula when he bites her the violins come in this is to represent the teeth sinking into her neck and in psycho the share high pitched note represent the knife going into Mariana. Also the title is used 3 times in the film to represent panic and to shower her fear , you can see this again in Texas chainsaw massacre the begging, the title music is a variation of letherfaces motif since the film it pretty much about him you can see why they use it a lot more.

The motif for all the films are done extremely well if we take psychos motif this comes into play when he is killing some body or he is the “mother” first time is when kill Mariana in the shower and then when he kills the PI, when he attack the victims the music some in almost straight away with music bin so sharp and fast the so is the killing, the music comes out of nowhere make the view jump, because they are not expecting it , also as if Alfred Hitchcock use’s the element of surprise on the viewer aging this is proven when Marina goes into the fruit cupboard and finds the corpse of his mother when she turns the chair round soon as you see the decrepit face of the mother the music comes in and then it builds up as the psycho burst into the room wilding the knife.
The motif in TCM is very different as it’s a build up and sounds extremely evil and twisted to represent the personality of letherface this comes into play again either when letherface is killing some on or he has bin called for we see this when he acquires his chainsaw and for example he kills the biker that infiltrated there house, the other music in it is extremely evil as well at e.g. When letherface is first found the music is unbelievable evil, this to represent the fact that Thomas Hewitt was found in a bin, that he was so deformed that not even any body in the factory would look after him as there own epically when his mother died in labour! Another horrifying piece of music in this film is when the new sheriff Hoyt is re-born the music as he is putting his uniform on has a grate sense of wrongness about it as he is now the new sheriff and only law enforcement in this small dammed town, and the fact you know what he is going to add to the fear and horror of this.
When he gets his new mask from Dean this is a variation of letherface’s , motif as is probably to mark his new mask and a new chapter in his life, because the mask he now has look more like the one in the original Texas chainsaw massacre , the music is so evil even more than his motif seems this is a variation and not his actual motif this could be to show how truly disturbing he actually is by the music changing slightly shows how letherface is changing as well by getting his new mask almost a new level of evilness and who truly sick he is.

Now Dracula’s motif is more to show his emotion as we see the first piece of music is his motif and as it starts out slow and soft with Chellos and other string instrument it then build up and all the other brass instrument come in and show the full power of it. Then again through out the film it comes in and it does make u scared for example when Harker is get seduced by the vampires he at then of that scean he throws them a baby to eat and the motif back up the shear horror of them eating a baby. The music in Draculas not just his motif is very deep and a lot of emotion attracted to it do with his past life for example how Elizabeth is a recantation of his wife centenary ago, through the music in Dracula it show his emotion as well as his fear, but also to put fear into the viewer.

Most of the music used in these horror films are orchestral and not actual song done by bands, this works very well as it had more of a fear/horror fact to them.

A lot of emotion in films it portrayed by music either to represent the emotion or to back the feeling up, the best way I think this is done is if you take the part in Dracula when he is reminiscing about his love Elizabeth and the sad pathetic music comes in to play and this back up how sad Dracula is and how he feel about the whole trying to find her and also when letherface acquires his new mask after taking it off Dean but this the music is to represent his evil and twisted side of him as it’s a variation f his motif and is show and new level of evil with in him both of these pieces of music are done ancestrally and work both very well even though they are to represent to complete opposites they are done with the same instruments but work in completely different way just show how wide the rage of an orchestra is.