Music for Film Trailer

Sourcing the music for our film trailer required careful planning as we had a number of requirements for it to fill. Primarily, the soundtrack was of great importance due to the fact that it provides an undercurrent to a trailer and is able to set, amongst other things, the pace, mood and rhythm of the finished product. Because of these reasons, we knew that getting the Soundtrack right for our trailer would be an important task and largely the success of our film trailer depended upon it. Despite this, however, we were aware that composing and producing our own musical soundtrack would bear too much time constraint in the time available to us. For this reason we elected to use a Royalty Free soundtrack from video sharing website YouTube. The reason for this decision being made was primarily for efficiency reasons. However, Zach and I were both still keen to find a track that suited the dark, sombreness echoed in our trailer and scoured YouTube in search of a track that would echo the dark mood we were hoping to inseminate from our trailer.
The most difficult part associated with our music hunting was the fact that both Zach and I knew that the trailer in it's roughly edited state would require some rearrangement at a later stage. so we had to conceptualise how the trailer would feel with the music tracks we were sampling and previewing inserted over the top over the footage. This, at times, proved slightly difficult so we played the trailer multiple times with various audio tracks incorporated over the top of it to view the full effect with the sampled music tracks incorporated with our footage.
After much deliberation, Zach and I decided that to best reciprocate the mood of the trailer through our music choice(s) we elected a fast paced, edgy contemporary music track from a royalty free source through YouTube user: thesecession to best echo the emotions of high drama and action experienced within our trailer.   This YouTube user actively encourage the music to be used in short films and we feel that the music added an extra layer of emotional depth and detail that otherwise would have been missing from our production.