Soundtrack Research

   I have realised the importance of sound in trailers. Not only can it set the pace for a trailer as well as a movie; which I learnt for my opening two minutes last year, it can also be a way to engage with the audience whereby they will remember the name of the movie due to the soundtrack. Examples of where soundtracks are so famously associated with films are the Star Wars theme tune and the Harry Potter theme tune as well.                    

                            
   Here is the world famous Star Wars theme tune which has been in almost if not, all of their movies. This theme song was written and composed by John Williams but the majority of people will know it as the Star Wars theme tune as opposed to a piece made by John Williams. This really emphasises the importance of a soundtrack.

Our Soundtrack:
   We have realised the potential importance of non-diegetic sound and so we have acquired the skills of a trusted musician who can give us what we want.  This is better than copyrighted music as we will be getting what we need for our specific movie and if we were to use copyrighted music; it would be time consuming as we would have to take aspects from different sound pieces.

   James Richardson

        This is the person who has composed our soundtrack for our trailer. I as well as my group had seen his excellent work in Sins of A Martyr whereby the non-diegetic music in the background really helped dictate the pace of the film and was highly regarded as a piece of media work. Thus we understood that we needed him, especially with the high levels of risk in regards to failure that our boxing movie contains but having James Richardson produce our soundtrack meant that the levels of risk has slightly decreased. We had told James our idea, and then worked long and hard in order to execute this into a finished product. James being a perfectionist, helped us understand what type of sound we were looking for ad it took a lot of hours to make it sound perfect in which we are still working on it.


                               

    Here is a little segment of the piece that we have almost finished making for our trailer. We have been risky in terms of the different levels and sudden drops that we have put into the sound piece but we feel thatit can help with the success of our trailer.
 
     We do understand the importance of a soundtrack and so we have made a number of contingency plans if our soundtrack doesn't complement our trailer as well as we envisioned but this is another way we have reduced the risk of our trailer. This contingency consists of three different pieces of non-diegetic music which we have found on the internet. We each found one whereby we were looking for different charactersitics between them.
 
    Soundtrack 1:

             

    Here is our first contingency and we had picked this because of the different levels it included and the simple fact that we could extract pieces of this long non-diegetic soundtrack into our trailer and it wouldn't be too hard and so if we were to have limited time, we could use this one. One differentiating point of this sound piece in comparison to the others is the vast array of instruments that it includes. This allows for a more detailed story that can be told to the audience through the different instruments. Throughout this soundtrack, the feeling that is gained is motivation which is re-enforced with the sudden drops in the music.

Soundtrack 2:

           

Here is the second contingency plan which we have found. This one consists of much more fire and gets right to the point. This is why it is only one minute long as an introduction cannot really be identified. A problem with this soundtrack though is that it only offers one feeling of energy throughout the sound piece and so isn't really relevant when our main character will be looking weak at the start of the trailer. This piece of sound can be helpful but we will need to still take extracts from soundtrack 1 in order to add more feelings to our actual trailer.

     Soundtrack 3


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    Here is the third and final one of our contingencies whereby we have found a pure boxing entrance soundtrack. This is useful due to the changes in pace and thus I feel We can use it to tell a story in our trailer. Despite this, I feel that it will require a lot of time to edit the specific parts that we need. Furthermore, our movie also has a Drama aspect to it where I feel that this soundtrack will not show but it will do very well in providing information about the boxing section of our movie.

     Overall, I feel that I have taken the necessary precautions required to reduce the level of risk for our trailer due to the secondary research into non-copyrighted music. Furthermore it has been very helpful that we have our own composition  piece for our trailer which will give us exactly what we want and thus is far less time consuming.