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Originality in Trailer Music

Yes, really. I have worked in other situations where there was a 10 page (or longer) brief and all it does is shackle me.

yeah but i guess my point was that usually the aim of each brief is to capture a certain mood. once you do that i guess you're free to write what you want. but if they are looking for dark sinister and you decide to write uplifting they would hardly be happy imo. i would imagine its much the same with working with a film director and writing to a particular scene. if they ask for a particular mood tone emotion you cant really stray too far from there.

Danny
 
Well, it's true that if you write rom-com and they want Avengers that's bad. But the point is to write something that incorporates your individual taste and imagination. Those cues have been by far the most successful.

Not just in trailers, either.

I'm sure I told this story before but once upon a time I was presented with a scene that the production team said they'd tried a bunch of times to temp, the composer they'd hired had had one or two shots at it and they weren't happy with anything. But the one thing they were 100% certain about was "no circus music" -- that was the big no-no.

So I watch the scene and I think, "this scene needs circus music." So I wrote that and they loved it.

I don't get all confrontational if I disagree, but my experience suggests: do what inspires you or it ends up pretty insipid.
 
I'm sure I told this story before but once upon a time I was presented with a scene that the production team said they'd tried a bunch of times to temp, the composer they'd hired had had one or two shots at it and they weren't happy with anything. But the one thing they were 100% certain about was "no circus music" -- that was the big no-no.

So I watch the scene and I think, "this scene needs circus music." So I wrote that and they loved it.
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Makes me think of how Hitchcock expressly told Bernard Herrmann he didn't want music for the Psycho shower scene. Guess what happened.
 
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