Music ♪♫

As my teaser trailer is a family drama with a sad storyline, when thinking about what music to use, I thought that a sad non-diegetic sound would fit it best. I wanted a sound that was quite smooth at the beggining and then changed its tone a bit to make it sound slightly more dramatic throughout the trailer, to match the fast pace shots that the trailer has at the end. I also looked at some other trailers for drama films to try and get an idea of what they used. Two trailers that I particulary liked the way they used their music was: "Remember Me" and "Million Dollar Baby". "Remember Me" is a drama about a young man with family problems. I like the way that this trailer used its music because it started off quite light and sad and then got more dramatic towards the end. I think that this was really effective and similar to what I wanted to create. "Million Dollar Baby" is also a drama about a distressed boxer teacher who lost his daughter. This film is quite different to mine but I really like the way they did their music in the trailer, it changed throughout the trailer as the emotions got tougher, I think it worked really well. Here are the trailers for "Remember Me" and "Million Dollar Baby":

So, after looking at these trailers, with the help of my dad, I created a sound for my teaser trailer. We used a program called Reason 4.0, it was a really good program that allowed us to play around with all different sounds and put them all together to make the sound that I wanted. We started of with quite a subtle sound, using different piano effects. And then towards the end of the trailer we put in some drum effects and some more piano effects to make it sound more dramatic. Here is a picture of the program whilst we we're editing my music together:

The top half has hundreds of different things that we could play with to create different sounds, and the bottom half is where my track is with the different levels and parts to it that we put in (variations of piano, drums, etc.). Here is the final track the we created: