Music

Extensive research showed that music is a huge part of a teaser trailer and therefore we had to get a piece of film music that portrayed the genre and suited the atmosphere that we wanted to give out.

However, similar to last year’s production we had some limitations that would affect what music we used. For our teaser trailer we were not allowed to use any copyrighted material and has to make or find our own un-copyrighted music. After we had decided the genre of our film we quickly set to work on researching different types of music that we could have. The best options that we had were with Garage Band on the Apple Mac or finding an unsigned band with music we could use or that they could create for us. We thought that these were the best options available to us because they would both give our film suitable music and they way we obtained it was feasible.

We thought that the best way to find un-copyrighted music was through the internet and websites such as http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/. When we were looking through some of the content on this website we thought that lots of it was very good but there wasn’t too much music that would have suited our production. However, after all of the searching we did find a couple of tracks that could have worked for our teaser trailer. At the same time we were also learning how to use Garage Band because it is a useful skill to have and is something that we could need for other sounds on our film and maybe even the main piece of music.

Before we had created any music or downloaded any of the music from the internet, we took a look at some music kindly created for films specifically for us by Stephen Scott. We listened to each of the tracks and thought carefully about which one could work with what we were making. There were at least 3 that did suit our production and after putting the music with our footage we decided on a track that would work very well. After selecting the music and putting it into place with our film, we are very happy with the outcome because it is exactly what we wanted; it gives off the right atmosphere and suits the genre of our teaser trailer.