Music in trailers is key. It sets up the mood and atmosphere for the rest of the film whilst also indicating to the audience what genre the film is. Thrillers tend to use 'creepy'/'eerie' music which starts off slow then builds up faster and faster creating the tension. The music used represents the action going on in the film.
I have looked at many examples of thriller music choices and they all follow the same sort of fashion of beginning slow, fastening and including a few drum beats when key action is happening and also on occasion overlaying the sounds of gun shots footsteps, heavy breathing and most commonly a voice over, or even almost natural diegetic sounds then with a song being played over the whole of the action.
I found it very difficult to find any copyright free music that would be suited to my genre. For the beginnig of my trailer I used a royalty free track from www.youtube.com. For the rest of the trailer I have chosen to use a song called 'Get my gun' written by some guys I know in a band called 'The Kid Kapichi'. Who have let me use their song in my trailer. I think that this song choice is very good as the sound fits the action quite well, the band also has a Kooks sort of sound which could entice a mainstream audience possibly.
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