Music Score

I have always felt from the moment of deciding on doing a horror opening sequence that the music score would be essential to create the right mood at the beginning of the film. After listening to a few scores from movies such as 'Hannibal' I liked the subtle strings that Hans Zimmer uses to create a spooky atmosphere. Also the score to 'The Dark Knight' again written by Hans Zimmer with James Newton Howard, it's first piece has a great use of timpani's at the beginning which then grows as the film develops. Although 'The Dark Knight' is not a horror film I have taken inspiration from this movie to create the music for my opening sequence and combine both ideas to have one final piece with both timpani's and string's. All this will be done on Sibelius and then imported on to final cut and synced with the film to get it just right.