Family Friendly Trailer Music - Would Love to hear your thoughts

[bmoBauhaus]

Here's my attempt family friendly trailer music. Looking forward to your comments. Thank you!

?subject=Children Fantasy Trailer by Brian Morales, composer at TAXI&body=https://www.taxi.com/members/N5SOUeh_Qe ... sy-trailer




TAXI # S211215FF

FAMILY-FRIENDLY, FANTASY ORCHESTRAL TRAILER-Style INSTRUMENTALS are needed by an extremely busy Music Library with a tremendously long list of killer placements in Hit TV Shows!

This Library is on the hunt for Instrumentals that are in the general stylistic ballpark of these references:

The Secret Garden

The BFG

Christopher Robin

Please submit well-composed Orchestral Instrumentals that could help establish a wonder-filled mood in family-friendly fantasy Movie Trailers a la Disney, Pixar, etc. Your submissions should have sweeping melodies, high-quality Orchestral instrumentation, and 3 "acts" that build to a climactic ending. Please be sure that your production is polished. If you plan on using any virtual Orchestral instrumentation, it should be indistinguishable from the real thing – nothing that sounds stiff or obviously MIDI-driven will work for this request. Don't be afraid to really layer up your instrumentation to create a blockbuster-worthy sound!

All submissions should be about 2 minutes and 30 seconds to 3 minutes long, give or take. Non-faded, Stinger endings are strongly recommended. Do NOT copy the referenced tracks in any way, shape, or form. Use them only as a general guide for tempo, tone, and overall vibe. Broadcast Quality is needed.

IMPORTANT: This Library really wants to find top-notch Composers – not just people who combine different samples or loops without altering them at all. Cleared sample libraries are okay to use, but any samples or loops you include in your pieces should be altered enough that they're indistinguishable from the originals. Basically, if you Shazamed one of your tracks and another artist's song or instrumental comes up, your music would definitely be disqualified by this Company.

ALSO IMPORTANT: Your Submissions can NOT be commercially released on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. OR be encumbered by ANY other publishing, licensing, administration, and/or exploitation deals (whether non-exclusive or exclusive) including publishing/licensing agreements with CD Baby, TuneCore, etc.

This company offers an EXCLUSIVE deal. You’ll split all upfront sync fees 50/50. You’ll keep 100% of the Writer’s share and the Publisher will get 100% of the Publisher’s share. You must own or control your Master and Copyright. Since this is an EXCLUSIVE deal, please be sure the material you submit for this pitch is not already signed with other Libraries or Catalogs. Please submit as many Instrumentals as you’d like, online or per CD. All submissions will be screened and critiqued by TAXI. Submissions must be received no later than 11:59 PM (PST) on Wednesday, December 15th, 2021.

[MJLeeman]

Hi bmoBauhaus

I have several observations for your consideration.

Musically, I like the overall forward harmonic movement in your piece and the clear and simple statement of the theme up to about 0:16. Immediately after that, the pace quickens suddenly with a semiquaver/16th-note accompaniment in the left hand of the piano and a chordal style accompaniment in the strings. I'm speculating that you were looking to create an immediate sense of contrast at that point. Another approach might be initially to halve the pace of left-hand piano accompaniment to eighth notes (starting around 0:16) and make that a feature at that point by delaying the early entry of the strings. In my view, this would leave more room later on for development of those features, specifically to quicken (and possibly widen the range of) the piano left-hand and go to town with the other instruments. Another observation is that the arpeggiated piano accompaniment is a bit overpowered, especially later on, by the other instruments. Others in this forum would have better mixing advice than I can give as to how to process the tracks to deal with this issue. Around 1:42, the entry of the brass should in my opinion assault the listener's ears more with a powerful orchestral horn sound.

All the best with your submission to this listing.

Cheers
Michael Leeman

[bmoBauhaus]

Hi bmoBauhaus

I have several observations for your consideration.

Musically, I like the overall forward harmonic movement in your piece and the clear and simple statement of the theme up to about 0:16. Immediately after that, the pace quickens suddenly with a semiquaver/16th-note accompaniment in the left hand of the piano and a chordal style accompaniment in the strings. I'm speculating that you were looking to create an immediate sense of contrast at that point. Another approach might be initially to halve the pace of left-hand piano accompaniment to eighth notes (starting around 0:16) and make that a feature at that point by delaying the early entry of the strings. In my view, this would leave more room later on for development of those features, specifically to quicken (and possibly widen the range of) the piano left-hand and go to town with the other instruments. Another observation is that the arpeggiated piano accompaniment is a bit overpowered, especially later on, by the other instruments. Others in this forum would have better mixing advice than I can give as to how to process the tracks to deal with this issue. Around 1:42, the entry of the brass should in my opinion assault the listener's ears more with a powerful orchestral horn sound.

All the best with your submission to this listing.

Cheers
Michael Leeman

This is great. I definitely will update the piano LH a bit. That was mostly out of a laziness. : ) Thanks.