When looking into soundtracks Beccy and I decided to look at how music is used in the trailer for Ocean's Eleven (2001).
In this trailer several different styles are meshed together with snappy cuts to enhance the footage on screen. We decided that we wouldn't want to make as many cuts as in this trailer but we would make a couple to reflect changes in tone. We also like some of the jazzier styles of music as we felt that it reflected the more traditional allure of the classic spy film, eg. early Bond films. However as at the end of the trailer it hits a more somber tone it wouldn't be effective to carry this style on throughout the whole trailer. Instead at the end we are going to switch to a more classical piece to create a reflective atmosphere would both match the footage and encourage the audience to consider the film, while keeping the jazz to the scene at the beginning which is very much the sort of generic scene an audience would expect from a spy film. For some of the more climactic bits of the trailer there will some action shots hinting at the plot line, for this I wanted the music to be more aggressive and felt that string instruments would work well. To help Beccy understand what I meant by this I played her some of the music from both the Robert Downey Jr film adaption of Sherlock Holmes and the BBC TV show. In both of these strings are played aggressively to show the violence and emotional turmoil of a scene.