Trailer Music: A look at the overlooked. It’s a genre that few men know, and fewer still appreciate. But this genre is heard by millions of people every day, every time they log onto YouTube, glance at the TV or sit down in a cinema — they just don’t realise what they’re hearing. Such is trailer music: the dark horse of the film industry. A subdivision of so-called ‘stock’ or ‘production’ music, trailer music is perhaps the most underappreciated element of film promotion. It has the uncanny ability to make something as banal as brushing your teeth or walking your dog seem like an epic trek into the fires of Mordor.
Its composers work quietly and diligently in their studios to produce vast numbers of 2-3 minute scores with the most important job in Hollywood: to leave us gagging for more. A trailer is a miniature film. Nowadays only about one in four trailers will have an original score. Now that library companies have started to go public with their music, we might just see trailer music go mainstream. Audiomachine music for motion picture trailers-tv-video game ad campaigns « audiomachine. Two Steps From Hell. Thomas Bergersen. Immediate Music. Globus Music - splash. E.S. Posthumus. Future World Music - Music for Motion Picture Advertising. X-Ray Dog- Production Music, Soundtracks, Film Scores, Trailer Music.