Hip Hop Trailer Instrumental Structure
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:48 am
Hey guys and gals,
I m new here and have a question about trailer music.
The listing I tried to compose according to asked for the regular 3 part trailer structure. So, I get the idea of the trailer being a three act "play" and the music needs to support that. However, watching the references I noticed that these comedies used different pieces of hip hop for the different parts, not one song with different intensity depending on where in the trailer it appears. A lot of epic cues and more symphonic hybrid cues seem to have a theme going through and then elaborate on this theme with varying amount of instrumentation, building up as it goes along. But if the music editor is using 3-4 different hip hop songs and is cutting and pasting to fit dialogue and plot twists, does it make sense to compose three different snippets with different flavours or should one submit three different songs? And if I produce three different flavours in one "cue", should they come straight after each other, or can I put a bar in between the ending of one and the start of the next to make an edit easier?
Don´t know if this question even makes sense to anyone but would be very grateful for some insight from an experienced composer here on the forum.
Kindest regards from Hamburg, Germany
David
I m new here and have a question about trailer music.
The listing I tried to compose according to asked for the regular 3 part trailer structure. So, I get the idea of the trailer being a three act "play" and the music needs to support that. However, watching the references I noticed that these comedies used different pieces of hip hop for the different parts, not one song with different intensity depending on where in the trailer it appears. A lot of epic cues and more symphonic hybrid cues seem to have a theme going through and then elaborate on this theme with varying amount of instrumentation, building up as it goes along. But if the music editor is using 3-4 different hip hop songs and is cutting and pasting to fit dialogue and plot twists, does it make sense to compose three different snippets with different flavours or should one submit three different songs? And if I produce three different flavours in one "cue", should they come straight after each other, or can I put a bar in between the ending of one and the start of the next to make an edit easier?
Don´t know if this question even makes sense to anyone but would be very grateful for some insight from an experienced composer here on the forum.
Kindest regards from Hamburg, Germany
David