P: Hanna

I researched about the film Hanna, a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the skills of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father, an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

 I solely looked at sound. which consisted of an innocent dream-pop genre of music, oriental and a heavy, thumping electronic style of music. This mix creates the effect of a fairy tale with a darker side. Additionally the music is applied only at particular scenes and for the most part is used sparingly throughout with character themed tracks. The mix of such a hard electronic soundtrack with a visually pleasing film creates a film that is universally enjoyable to experience.

 

Hanna Soundtrack by Chemical Brothers was highly influential to our soundtrack for our film Sakkaku. At first we had sounds such as darker synthesisers which set the atmosphere. The layered beats and ominous sounds created a haunting feeling although it was simple and mostly electronica but the sound kept going down making the audience think silence is coming but then is interrupted by an eerie electronic beat. There is also an involvement of whispers that wavers into the sound, connoting the mind games played out in our film. 

We got a group of people that sat down and watched our film and asked us to give us feedback on what they think about the sound. The first set was that one of our audience actually said themselves that after watching our film they thought of the Hanna OST by Chemical Brothers which also had influence by Japanese Music. In our radio trailer there is like a small second of a oriental bell sounds which was similar to the soundtrack Hanna's theme song. which is an calm yet oriental sound giving off a strong Japanese vibe. It includes many overlapped chimes, humming, bells, synthesisers which is similar to our film soundtrack also. The music overall is gentle.

Another sound that influenced our soundtrack and trailer is Bahnof Rumble, which starts off with a ticking electronica beat that builds up with an eerie sound. The sound mid way paces up this influenced our radio trailer of having a normal pace sound until theres silence and the sound then goes daunting and booming with face pace beats.

Other feedback was that the music complimented the scenes as when we had the running and flashback scenes, the sounds suitably faded in and out in place and the daunting eerie sound gave more of a narration to the development of the film as we have no dialogue