Essay on sound - Obsessed (Miss Georgiou)

Obsessed

In the fight scene of the film obsessed, the background sound is quite intense. When the scene first starts and there is a stranger walking up to the house it signifies the conventions of a thriller because her identity is hidden and that is a key feature of the codes and conventions of a thriller. As the woman is walking up to the house it helps build tension for the audience because they don't know who she is and what she is doing. When the camera is on the stalker, and her identity is hidden, the camera shot that is used if a slow motion shot to make everything seem slower and make everything drag more. This keeps the audience more hooked on to the stalkers character at the moment and it keeps the audience waiting and in suspence for longer.

The background music sounds really dangerous and that helps keep the audience in suspense. In the scene when beyonce is on the phone to her husband the music changes dramatically to something less dangerous and aggressive as to the one when the woman is walking into the house. As the scene keeps changing to beyonce talking to her husband and the stranger in the house, you find that the music is getting more and more dramatic and intense each time the camera is on the woman in the house. This is to show that the stalker is clearly a dangerous character and how she is the bad person in this film, and when the camera changed on to beyonce and it shows her, this its telling the audience and she is the victim in this film.

When beyonce walks into the house to put the alarm back on she hears a champagne bottle pop and this sound is coming from her bedroom. This uses off screen sound for the audience because the audience can hear where the sound is coming from but its not on screen. In this scene there is very good use of parallel sound because all the background sound fits in very well with whats going on in the scene, for example in the fight scene when beyonce gets kicked down the stairs, all that loud dramatic music had stopped completly and it had gone quiet because no one knew how hurt beyonce was and weather she was still alive or not. This brings tention for the audience and keeps them in suspence of what happens from that point onwards. Also when beyonce gets up and starts looking for the other girl, the music's all quiet which helps the audience feel more involved in the scene because they feel that they need to be quiet too.

Further into the scene, when beyonce goes to the top floor and is looking for the other girl she gets attacked from behind. When she gets attacked the music instantly changes and goes along with the speed of the action, so for example when the fighting is happening at a quicker pace the music is much faster aswell. As the fight was getting more risky the music was changing so it was more dramatic and sounded more dangerous which keeps the audience more engaged while the fight is going on. Right at the end of the scene when beyonce pushes the other girl of the top floor so she falls down to the bottom, as soon as the stalker hit the table the music instantly turned off and the atmosphere was very quiet leading the audience in to asking them self  questions like is she still alive.

Sound and music is a very important factor when making a thriller movie because thats what engages the audience and allows them to relate to the film, letting them know what is going on in that very scene and what the atmosphere at the very moment is.