Deconstruction of Graphic Sounds

In our opening, the killer will be cutting open the victim's stomach and this is the common noise used for that:

From our questionnaire, we discovered that the target audience do not want the scenes to be too graphic, they want them to be suggestive so this sound will be diegetic and off-screen to tell the audience that the killer has cut into the victim, without showing it happening on the screen.

In a scene in Evil Dead, the possessed woman is cutting open her face and there is a quiet off-screen diegetic squelch sound, which then becomes on-screen as we see her doing it. The volume of the squelch is effective because when it is off-screen, it does not overtly tell the audience that she is cutting herself/someone, and when it is on-screen, the volume stays the same. This is good because it brings more attention to her golden eye colour and the blood all over her face, emphasizing that this is a slasher film. (0:18 - 0:30)

A louder on-screen squelching noise is used for Rory's death in Final Destination 2. This is effective because it emphasizes the goriness and abruptness of his death. For our opening, we could include a loud on-screen sound for the victim's death (e.g. the knife cutting into her) so to tell the audience that she is dead, and to fit in with the slasher convention of graphic sounds to accompany the graphic bloody scenes.

In V for Vendetta, the killer kills a mob of people using knives. The on-screen diegetic knife sounds are very loud which highlights his skills and speed, making him look more threatening and powerful. In our opening, the killer will be using a knife to open the victim as that seems more gory and painful, therefore making it fit well into the slasher genre. The sound of our killer's knife should also be loud because it is suggestively telling the audience that the killer is cutting open the victim.

Overall, for our opening, we should include loud knife slashing sounds so to make the death scene more disturbing, followed by squelching noises to tell the audience that he is trying to take out the foetus -  this will make the audience feel nauseous which is what slasher films are supposed to do with their levels of gore.