Music

When planning what music I was going to have in the trailer, I watched the 4 trailer I had previously studied and payed close attention to the music they had used. When i was focusing on the music, I found I noticed that when there was direct speech, the music doesn't stop, it just goes very quiet but gets louder when the speech is finished. I noticed that Save The Last Dance uses 5 music tracks, You Got Served uses 5 music tracks, Step Up 1 used 4 music tracks and Step Up 2 uses 5 music tracks.

This gave me an idea of how many tracks I should be considering using. The next thing I did was think about the order of the shots in my trailer and the atmosphere I wanted to create during those shots, as music plays a large part in the atmosphere created.

Once I had done this, I went through some previous soundtracks from similar movies and some of the same genre music (Hip Hop). I selected 4 tracks that I thought, in the order I put them in, worked really well with the order of my shots. I also selected a song called 'Is It You?' by Cassie and I thought this would be a good track to put in the middle of the trailer when the romance between the two main characters is first noticed because the lyrics help the viewers pick up on the fact that there is a romance. Also, the finally song I chose is 'I Believe' by Yolanda Adams. I chose this song because it is has a quick pace and creates a very lively atmosphere and I think thats the type of atmosphere I want to be created in my trailer so that it leaves the viewers wanting to watch it.