Música para videojuegos del género Survivor Horror propuesta de sonorización y composición de la música para el Tráiler del Videojuego Outlast

Abstract

This work is an approach to the type of soundtrack that can be used in a video game of the genre Survivor Horror with the objective of developing a soundtrack proposal for the video of the official trailer of the video game OUTLAST. In the first part, an approach is made to the generalities involved in videogame music, focusing on the technical and theoretical aspects that are used when adding soundtrack and how music, considering the emotional directionality, interacts to highlight certain situations that gender poses. The second part makes an approach to the genre Survivor Horror by analyzing the soundtrack of the video game Silent Hill and the soundtrack used in it, for the purpose of finding examples of the musical and sound resources used and highlighted in video games of this genre, taking the psychological aspect and emotional directionality as a reference of analysis. This part includes a survey of people who playing the video game IB -also a Survivor Horror game-, and their experience regarding the music. To conclude, a soundtrack proposal is elaborated that includes a musical composition for the video of the video game trailer OUTLAST developed by RED BARRELS.