CHOOSING THE MUSIC
First, we went on www.youtube.com, typed “horror music” and “creepy music” and then we started going through a number of videos in order to get ideas of what we wanted for our trailer.We thought that we could use some bits of these horror sounds/music for certain scenes on our trailer.
Then, we decided to find an instrumental song from a well-known rock band which was “Linkin Park”. The song was called “What I’ve done” and it had a good entrance with a piano, we thought it worked very well for the beginning of the trailer. We thought that if trailers have well known songs it may attract more audience. However, the rest of the song did not work very well because it was too strong, it repeated the same throughout the whole trailer which made it boring and it did not sound scary.
Lastly, we decided to search for classic music. We found a song called Eros by Ludovico Einaudi and it had lots of different phases with piano and violin, strong and slow phases that we could pick for the different scenes of our trailer. We thought that this song was the best as it had a lot to choose from.
ISSUES WHEN CHOOSING THE MUSIC
The issues we had when choosing our music was that we could not make the music to work well with each scene. This means that if a scene was supposed to be strong and scare the audience, we wanted the music at that precise moment to be strong as well. Also, we wanted the music to go with the movement and rhythm of the actors. It was difficult to find this in one song. Therefore, we decided to pick different bits of the “Ludovico Einaudi – Eros” song. We had to select each bit we wanted from the song for each scene.
OUR INSPIRATION
Our inspiration was that we wanted slow and fast part of a song in our trailer. We also wanted to start slow and then as the trailer goes, the music would become faster. We wanted the characters to move with the rhythm of the music.
