Music.

During editing we added in music and a fake telephone call between the girl who had been kidnapped and the police. The music makes the beginning more conventional because many thriller films show the action with music over the top with all diagetic sounds apart from voices able to be heard. The music we included was put in to increase tension and followed thriller conventions, but we had to be careful that it wasn’t jumpy, like horror music. We got this music from a royalty free website. This was important because we could not include any copyrighted music without permission. The telephone call plays over the ‘Sunshine’ title with no other noise. Initially we were not going to do this, but we decided that there needed to be some kind of sound over the title to tie the whole thing together. The phone call adds to the eeriness of the film, because the phone line cuts out just was we are finding out what has happened. This was done, not only to link the detective scene to the kidnapping, but also to frustrate the viewer and make them think about where she is and what may happen.