Soundtrack Research

For our soundtrack we decided that a slow, creepy and eerie music should set the main theme for the trailer, this is mainly due to the fact that we are going to do a horror movie. We found a non copyrighted song which we thought would fit directly for our trailer, although we would have to figure out how to take out sections of the song and put them into different parts of the trailer, since the song is fairly long lasting about 2:30 minutes. Since we don't want our trailer to be too long, we decided to cut down the song a bit into different pieces, so that we can then take those parts and put them into the clips and sequences which were best suited for that part. However with this song that we had found, we had to ask the creator for his/her permission, which they then accepted and said it was fine that we could use it for our trailer, although it isn't the absolute best, it is a pretty good song that can set the mood, with a few jump scares which we thought would fit perfectly with out trailer at certain points, since we wanted to have a certain part where the antagonist of the horror movie is behind the protagonist, and a sudden burst of loud music would make it twice as good.

However we did look for some more songs, but we couldn't find many good uncopyrighted songs, since the majority of the channels on YouTube only had made mix tapes out of several various songs, and we would therefore have to pay for the licencing for that song, even then that would make us vulnerable as they could have scammed us, so it was best that we found this song and were given permission to use it. The reason we didn't choose any upbeat music or didn't use media fire was because the quality isn't too good, also the majority of the songs would have been used by other students, resulting in a less popular trailer since they would have already heard the song, also it would make it more boring for the people watching it.

Since we were going for the horror theme, we initially decided that a fast sudden music should be put in straight away, however we had some disagreements with each other and decided to discuss what the best way around deciding the song was, since I had already written out the beginning part of our trailer, what i thought was suited more was a slow theme, to build up the tension and maybe suddenly stop or to build it up to a jump scare, so that people know that it is coming, but they don't know when, so it is sudden, much like many classical horror movies for example Insidious.

I then showed my friend the song and we both read the ideas and thought that the slow build up theme was the best, although it may be overused in many films, it never gets old.