Choosing The Right Soundtrack

I believe that getting the right soundtrack to fit our own thriller piece was the hardest part. The soundtrack can express what you want the audience to feel and it can create moods. For us we wanted a medium paced track which would build and build but without being to over the top, we wanted the audience to sympathise with the young boy who had been taken.
Also the majority of our opening scenes show the gang going somewhere, so we wanted a kind of galloping beat. Our track had to sound serious if we were ever hoping to create a mood, but it also had to fit what you were seeing on the screen.

Marc Streitenfeld- Fire



I finally settled on Marc Streitenfield’s brilliantly composed soundtrack for the film ‘American Gangster’. His use of violin strings brings a fantastic sense of suspense. Also the constant thud of the drum creates the pace that we wanted to have.


Marc Streitenfeld - The Arrival



The second track we used was also from American Gangster and composed by Marc Streitenfield. This track has a quicker pace to it and what we really wanted to do with it was to emphasise the power that the gang of men have over the boy as they push him out the car and through the corridor and I believe with this soundtrack it does that.