In our recent media lesson, we experimented with a music programme called Cubase. The programme can record different instruments in layers and different times. For our genre, horror, we used eerie sounds and high pitch instruments, such as xylophone; which is a usual instument used in composing horror music. Music in horror films often lack melody and focus on filling the silence or increasing the suspense. Louder and tuneless sounds often add to the shock. There is often long pauses in trailers for horror music, such as the Insidious and the Woman in Black trailer. Eerie and simple music is normally used when the credits and inter-titles are shown.
Other ways to put music into our teaser trailer include http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ which allows the user to browse for non-copyrighted music by genre or feel and download it at no cost. Genres include: Horror, contempory, etc and optons in feel include mysterious, intense, eerie, etc.
Another similar website is http://www.audionautix.com/index.html . Once again there are genres and categories and they are pre-recorded with no suscription and no fees needed.
