Sound analysis: 'Mother'

The trailer starts off with the light sound of music coming from church organs. It slowly fades when the woman says "I wanna make a paradise". This connotes that she won't be able to make it as this subtle sounded music stopped. There would be something preventing her from doing so/ or something that destroys her dreams.
So far we hear two characters which indicates that there are two main characters; a man and a woman which creates binary opposites as they both have different views. After the man says I love you to the woman, all sounds stop and everything goes silent. This creates suspense and connotes that something will happen to them both, and that someone or something will tear their relationship apart. Without the man's support, it seems like the woman cannot fulfil her ambitions. This creates dominance among men, a common stereotype and patriarchy in society.

There is a sudden pluck of a guitar / violin which acts as a sting; a symbol which carries on playing throughout the trailer which foreshadows upcoming events. Perhaps every time this sting occurs, it connotes a new scene or a new occurrence in their lives. It could also mimic a very slow heart beat, allowing a disequilibrium to form into an equilibrium. The tension builds up after her husband / the other male lets random strangers live in his house. The speed of the plucking of the guitar grows faster and faster creating suspense and allowing the audience to feel a rush of adrenaline as they may be put into a jump scare. The sting also acts like the monitor of a heartbeat, as when someone is in danger the monitor beats faster This connotes that the people that her husband is letting into their home are dangerous and will destroy everything.

The symbolic sting falls in speed and then stops. It then uses the same sound to create a different beat, which represents the difference that has happened in the couple's lives. The gasp of the main actress is caught in between which connotes that there will be a lot of jump scares before the main equilibrium. The gasp creates an enigma code as the audience would want to find out what she gasped and caught her breath at.

The guitar plucking replaces the normal conventional sound of a squeaky violin in horror movies, thus they have challenged a convention. This still seems interesting to their target audience. The man asks "What were you doing in their luggage?" which connotes that there is something wrong with the people that have come to stay in their house. The sounds of a small maraca play which sounds like sand / rice dropping onto plastic. This creates a rattle effect which connotes that danger is amongst them. All the sound stops into silence and another character says "God help you" to break this silence. This connotes that she knows they are in danger, or that she is one of the dangers itself.

There are smashing and gasping sounds to create verisimilitude and then a beat which sounds like a machine is broken. There are hushing sounds which sound like edited wind to make it sound scary. The main actress panics and cries. Her voice repeats when she says "you're insane" like it is recorded, which connotes these strangers have been keeping an eye on her, and that they are trying to make her go insane instead.
The man says all he was trying to do was create new ideas and "open the door to these people" whilst there is a faint sound of ambulances and police sirens in the background. The plucking noise plays rapidly connoting how fast things changed for the couple. The main actress screams "get out of my house!" in fear which then follows by an equilibrium of all the sounds put together to create a sense of fear and panic and 'get out of my head' sensation. The trailer ends with the conventional scream but she is screaming "no" which makes her sound possessed. The last thing we hear is the rapid sound of the plucking coming to and end, which creates an enigma code because we don't know if the strangers left their house or if the lives of the couple has ended.

I chose to analyse this trailer as it is different unique, and recent, because the movie is coming out very soon.