Deconstruction: Nursery Rhymes

Sound Deconstruction: Nursery Rhymes

Due to having a young character in our film opening, a common convention of possession horror films is to have non-diegetic nursery rhymes play over clips, I decided to find multiple non-copyrighted nursery rhymes and decide on one to have in our film opening. I found the following:

 Ring Around the Roses

I think this version of the song is very effective and will be good in our film opening in the scenes with the girl as:

• It has an eerie murmur in the background of the track, creating tension
• The voice is of a woman/child fitting in with our narrative
• The voice is a whisper which creates secrecy which is the main basis of the girl

As it is a copyrighted piece of music - from the video game Dead Space - we will make sure to give full ownership rights to the owner and we will use it layered with a piece of self-made sound so that we do not breach copyright.

Hush Little Baby

This song was made by the user of the YouTube channel, so I asked permission to use the track for our media project.

She said that it was fine so we do not have to worry about layering or editing the track.

I like this track as:

• The singing is chilling as it is a single girl
• There is minimal musical support to the voice which adds suspense
• The voice sounds quite innocent which juxtaposes the mood of our film opening

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

This song is again from the video game Dead Space so we will have to apply the same rules as before as well as layering it with a piece we have done ourselves.
I like this piece as:

• Again, the song has an eerie, demonic murmur in the background to the voice
• The voice is of the same woman as before which, if edited correcty, could be linked together
• I think the previous songs has more relvance lyrics wise as they are about children, linking to the narrative, although Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is a well-known nursery rhyme, the others are more fitting.

I am planning to place one of the songs at every point in which the girl can be seen. This will link the eerie nursery rhyme to the character, creating tension. It will also create dramatic irony as the character in the film opening will not see or know about the girl but the audience will.

I will choose the nursery rhyme that sounds the best when placed onto the clips and edited to fade in and out with the timings.