As you may be aware, there are many websites and apps online to help search for soundtracks or music pieces of specific genres or moods. The ones that our group has taken to using was RoyaltyFree music, a website that let us select specific genres or atmospheres of music we were looking for, generating all matching results. Though we had found some pieces of music for the rest of our thriller opening on this site, I personally could not find anything that I though matched the opening title sequence I had created. No matter how many times I selected 'eerie' or 'dramatic' I felt that none of the pieces were spooky or dramatic enough. They didn't give off the right kind of feel for what I wanted.
It was then that I had taken to YouTube, almost desperate for at least something better than what I had found on RoyaltyFree. It was a fortunate accident, like I had previously stated in the blog post about editing the opening title sequence, that I had stumbled upon this particular song. I had, with little motivation and certainty that I wouldn't find anything, searched dramatic horror piano music. Though our film is a thriller, I did not think there would be much of a difference between thriller and horror piano music, as they tend to both be dramatic, moody and often scary. The result I had stumbled upon had been this particular piano pieces that as soon as I heard I knew would fit in exactly with the edited opening sequence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFZ9g9vEdbE&hd=1
The link above is the song, named 'Horror Piano Theme'. Having listened to the entire piece, a specific point in the song stuck with me, between minutes 1:41 - 2:07, a female wailing that I though was spooky yet gentle enough to fit in with the images I had used for the sequence. Hearing it for the first time I decided that I would make it work with the opening sequence so I transferred the video into an mp3 file and attacked the audio file to the sequence. I cut the track down to these selected 26 seconds and played the whole opening sequence all together to see if any images/shots needed to be shortened pr extended. Once again it was complete coincidence or lucky that the opening title sequence fit in exactly with the 26 seconds audio file, just ending as the KOMA film title appeared.
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