- Don Lafontaine was known as the voiceover artist for over 4,000 movie trailers since 1963, often beginning with the phrase "In a world..." - Music is an important part of movie trailers but often the film score is not complete, so trailer editors source music from other movies, popular songs, or specially composed library music to set the tone - For example, the trailer for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events used music from Edward Scissorhands to remind viewers of that Tim Burton film

2. • Freedsound is a collaborative
software of Creative Commons
licensed audio samples which
holds more than 230,000
sounds with 4 million registered
users.
• The software covers a variety of
sounds ranging from field
recordings ( the term used for a
recording produced outside a
recording studio) to synthesized
sound effects (effects that are
artificially created or sounds
that have been enhanced)
• GarageBand is a line of digital audio
workstation for macOS and iOS
which enables users to create music
or podcasts.
• The software allows users to create
multiple tracks with pre-made
keyboards, pre-made loops, an
array of instrumental effects and
voice recordings
• Another way sound can be
created is through Foley,
which is the reproduction of
everyday sound effects that
can be added to films and or
videos.
• The array of sounds can be
reproduced by anything
ranging from breaking glass,
footsteps, squeaking of doors
and so on.

4. Click me to begin:
This is the first trailer that I have looked at for inspiration for my
own piece, although it may not seem to be the first trailer to
look at to be able to relate to our own, it involves conventions of
teen drama and the school setting which we also include.
The diegetic sound of
the school bell at the
start enabled us at the
audience to be able to
gain an understanding of
the setting, I feel like this
would be a good sound
to include in our own
piece as the majority of
the action takes place in
school grounds.
Click on
the bell
The sound track within this trailer also
inspired me as this is something we could
have over the top off the trailer alongside
the narration of our protagonist Chloe. This
would allow it to be upbeat and remain
interesting whilst reeling audience members
in.
Alongside all of the
other sounds, one
particular aspect I liked
was the cartoon/
drawing affect which
was incorporated into
the trailer. This really
stood out and is
something I wish to
use in my final piece.
Click on
the
scribble

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The trailer for the film 16 wishes has many similarities to our own piece therefore
when watching this we were able to gain a lot of inspiration that could then be
implemented into our end result.
One specific sound we want to include is a twinkle effect which will emphasise
the wish part of the plot, this would fit in particularly well when Chloe is looking
at the mirror and says “I wish I could be popular”. Such as the sound below,
which I sourced of FreeSound:
Click on the
star
Within one section of the
trailer there is also a rewind
sound of some sort which
would be fitting for the
change in personality of our
character to make that
distinction clear. This
particular sound can also be
found from the software
FreeSound:
Click on the
rewind button
for sound
example
The 16 Wishes trailer is upbeat and will attract the target
audience of young teenage girls in particular which is
what we aim to achieve making this a strong trailer to
keep referring back to in the future when editing.

6. Such as all previous trailers that I have looked at Freaky
Friday fits in well with what we aim to achieve in the latter
part of the editing process. The majority of sound which
included is dialogue that has been taken from scenes of the
film enable the audience to gain a subtle understanding of
what occurs in the plot. Not only this but it reels the
watchers in without giving to much away distracting it from
being a teaser trailer.
Within this specific trailer there is not just one
soundtrack that has been used throughout the
entirety of the trailer, instead several ones have
been cut and placed where appropriate coinciding
with the action that is taking place on the screen,
something we could do in order to make sure it is
not boring.
The diegetic sound which can be seen on the
screen have been empathised to show the
importance of them or to make a cut between
each shot which will then lead onto the next
something which has been noticeable between
16 Wishes and Freaky Friday.

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8. This is Don Lafontaine’s who in
which is to blame for the
modern cinema trailers, as
stated by the Guardian he has a
‘reverberating, honey-and-gravel
voice that has accompanied
approximately 4,000 trailers
since 1963, a troublingly large
proportion of which seem to
have begun with the phrase: "In
a world ... " In a world beyond
time, one man has nowhere to
run.’

9. Information retrieved from The Guardian Article:
‘By far the oddest practices in the world of trailers concern the music that accompanies them.’ Within most trailers the film
scores (music which plays in the background during a movie, often is orchestral style music, with more recently the style
becoming broader encompassing more electronic elements) are completed so late in the production process that most trailer
editors are unable to use the correct music. ‘Deploying the music from a successful older film to advertise a new one must be
about as close to subliminal advertising as it's legally possible to get: the makers of the trailers for the recent movie Lemony
Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, starring Jim Carrey, knew the movie they wanted viewers to be reminded of - Tim
Burton's Edward Scissorhands - and so they bought the rights to its score.’
Added Research:
• Music is used to help set the tone and mood of a trailer
• Within most trailers the music used is not sourced from the film itself as the film score may have not been produced yet .
Therefore the music implemented in the trailer may be sourced from:
• Music from the score of other movies.
• Popular or well-known music, often chosen for its tone, appropriateness of a lyric or lack therefor, or recognizability.
• "Library" music previously composed specifically to be used in advertising by an independent composer.
• Specially composed music. To name just one famous Hollywood composer John Beal who began scoring trailers in the 1970’s
and in the course of a thirty year career produced original music for over 2000 film trailer projects such as Star Wars, Titanic,
Aladdin and so on.