Film Trailer = Music

Millie and I decided to record our own soundtrack for our trailer. We researched other trailers to see what soundtracks were used for similar genres and found that the majority of them consisted of slow, emotion filled songs and a more upbeat and happy song, dependent on the ending of the film. For example, the film 'The Choice', staring Benjamin Walker and Teresa Palmer, includes the Sam Smith song 'Like I can' and sound bridges to a more upbeat song nearing the end. So Millie and I decided to take from this and use a different song by Sam Smith called 'Leave Your Lover' as the lyrics fitted perfectly to the storyline of our film. The chorus has the lyrics 'leave your lover, leave him for me' this is a great match to our film plotline as the main protagonist is wishing that her love interest would leave her boyfriend to be with her. We believed this was a good idea to record our own soundtrack as it uses our skill to our own advantage and enables us to use something we are confident in. We have now practised this a lot together and are currently waiting for a slot in the recording studio at school. Once we've recorded the song we will start to fit the shots we have to the music as we believe that this will help the emotion in the trailer really come through. We also want to create a more light-hearted track to use at the start of our trailer and will so by using the software at school called 'Logic Pro' on the Macs.