Soundtrack Choice

The soundtrack is an especially important feature of a trailer as it helps to capture the tone of the film that is being advertised and also serves as a way of attracting the audience's attention. Furthermore, it can add weight to quotes and soundbites from the film as well as action scenes.


For my trailer, I chose the music from the trailer for the 2014 video game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Tenth Dimension - My Strife, My Fight, My Fear) as my soundtrack. I wanted a soundtrack that began fairly calmly and slowly built up to a climax, as my trailer is composed in the same way; the start is mainly dialogue, while the second half is predominantly composed of action sequences. It was also suitable as Shadow of Mordor is similar in genre to my production and in many ways falls into the category of action/adventure, although it is also very fantasy-oriented unlike my trailer.