Soundtrack and Sound Effects

I did some research into use of soundtrack in horror trailers and decided that for my trailer, which is a psychological horror and so has an eerie, mysterious, feeling of unknown to it, this should be reflected in the soundtrack. Although there should still be increased tension/suspense throughout the trailer and so this should also be in conjunction with what we hear from the soundtrack. I wanted to use something that also seemed very mysterious but instead of using a piece of music, I wanted to use a track which seemed as if it didn't quite fit together properly, with very strange sounding parts to it which would heighten the feeling of unknown and disruption.

To get this, I went to a royalty-free music website, http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ and put in the criteria I was looking for. After trying a few different tracks I decided that one called The House of Leaves best fit what I was trying to do.

This track was described as "A simple harp refrain plays a child?s melody, but is torn apart by discordant screeching noises, thumps, growls, and mechanical noises." This seemed to completely fit what I was trying to do with the soundtrack and so seemed like the best choice.

Also, I downloaded some potential sound effects we could use from a site I located, http://www.soundjay.com/. I downloaded a range of effects just in case I decided I should use them such as camera sound effects e.g. focusing, tape loading and also other effects such as typing because I knew I wanted to use a typing effect for the text.