Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Music used in movie trailers |
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The movie trailer is used to promote the main movie. Lot many technological changes have taken place in the long history of these movie trailers. Initially these movie trailers had text content in them. There would be text giving you the idea about the story line etc. The people had to read this text from the screen. In those starting days many producers used to get the scenes from their main movie in these movie trailers. But from the sixties onwards there were lot many technological changes. For the first time the jib of creating these movie trailers was entrusted to third parties. The producers of the main movie stopped producing the movie trailers of their main movies. These movie trailer creators were professionals in their job. Their job was to promote the main movie through these movie trailers. The music used in these movie trailers became an important element of this whole project. It was no more necessary to include the scenes from the original main movie in these movie trailers. On the contrary many a times some special shootings were undertaken to make these movie trailers more attractive. In case of the terminator II, the scenes shown in
the movie trailer were never in the original movie. Similarly the practice of using the sound track from the original movie was also abandoned long back. The main criterion in using the music in the movie trailers was the effectiveness. Many a times the music score is taken from other movies. In this case many a times the previous hit songs are used to tie up with this movie trailers. The idea is to tell the viewers that this new movie is going to be hit like that song. This is all on the subtle psychological level. Many a times popular music tracks are used in these movie trailers. The idea here is to use the familiarity of that song for the promotion of the new movie. It is also possible that the popular music might be appropriate to the theme of the new movie. Many a times the classical music is used. It is possible to use the services of the specialist music scorers. Just as creating a movie trailer became the specialists job, scoring the original music for the movie trailer also became a specialized work. John Beal is famous music composer who has scored original music for more than two thousand movie trailers. Titanic, star wars are some of his famous top forty movie trailers. There are trailer music libraries also. Immediate music is one of these music library companies. The music track "redrum" was used twenty eight times in different movie trailers. http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/source-trailer.php?song=Redrum&artist=Immediate Music is the website where you can get the names of all these twenty eight movie trailers. http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/frequent/ is the webpage where you can get the Info regarding the music cues used again and again in different movie trailers. Movie Trailers
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