I’m one of those people that loves trailer editing and the thinking behind them – including one of the most important factors – the music.
How many times have you seen a trailer and thought the songs they use were brilliant, but then been let down to find that they a) don’t appear in the film, and b) aren’t on the soundtrack either? – A recent case in point would be Pineapple Express’s ‘Paper Planes’ by MIA (which pretty much made her name in the UK) but that wasn’t anywhere near the film.
Anyway, at the moment ones that spring to mind that I’ve liked and then subsequently landed on my iTunes include The Time Traveller’s Wife (song Broken by Lifehouse), Slumdog Millionaire (The Sun Always Shine on TV by A-ha)…
And this one (atmospheric music) – from a company called Two Steps From Hell
These guys are great – Two Steps From Hell make music especially for trailer cuts. These are some of the best ones in the business in my opinion – on their website is the list of some of their most recent work, Australia, Wall-E, Twilight, Star Trek, Spiderman 3 – pretty impressive range of stuff
See what you think
