The Clown: Music

For the musical score in the movie, we knew from the start that we wanted heavy, 80's style synth music. For reference, we look to John Carpenter's films Halloween and The Thing, both of which have synth based soundtracks.

We didn't worry about music selection until we were done with the final edit, since most movies aren't scored until they are done with the final edit. Once we had the final version of the movie, we went to YouTube to find our music. We made sure to find royalty free music so that we wouldn't have to worry about copyright issues.
We ended up finding the track below. It's one note synth lead perfectly fit the tense aesthetic we were going for, and the music slowly built onto itself, much like how the scene is supposed to.

After we put the music into the editing software and had it in a position we wanted it in, something still felt missing from the shot where Ethan's throat is slit. We decided we wanted to incorporate a strike into the sound mix to emphasize the shock of the clown's emergence from the closet. We skimmed YouTube for a bit and found this sound.