chrisbragg

I guess you can say I worked my way into it. I started my career mixing movie trailers for the big studios. After that I went to work for Hans Zimmer and then left to start a custom trailer music company.

Thanks! Yes the inception style BWAAAH is a very prevalent sound these days in trailer music! Because it sets a certain level of intensity and works so well with picture cuts that sound/style of music is certainly referenced a lot by music supervisors. In this particular case they wanted the cue to start of with big and intense hits to help build suspense.

First I was given guidelines from the music supervisor on what they were looking for musically and was in competition with a few other music providers.

After my "submission" was picked for the project I worked with the music supervisor, trailer editor, producer and studio creatives making revisions right up until the trailer was released. On a lot of projects I never actually get to see any footage of the trailer I'm working on due to the tight security which makes it difficult. But I do sometimes get to score directly to picture.

Thanks! It was actually quite easy to get where I am. Step 1. Work at it for 10 years for little to no pay. Step 2. Pledge your unwavering allegiance and offer your soul to the devil. Step 3. You're now a trailer composer but still have to engage in an epic battle to the death with all the other trailer composers to secure a gig working on a trailer that may or may not finish for one of the the limited number of major studio releases per year.

I got to see a lot of unfinished graphics and green screens lol. Aside from that I haven't seen anything that wasn't in the trailer.