Wednesday, May 23, 2007

rhythm and film

So, I was watching the "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" trailer (again) because I am a pirate nerd and am obsessed with these films. And I guess this class is really getting into my head, because I noticed how amazing the trailer was due to their scenes being so in sync with the visuals. I noticed how, even during a sword fight, each "click" of the sword matched a note in the music, as did the final blows shown. It was pretty amazing to me, for a "pop" movie, and I have no idea (as I don't know a ton about film, just historical stuff, not technical), if producers had a specific score designed PURELY for the trailer. Or, if they usually don't, but this film might be an exception.

I only have a link; I tried to find it on YouTube, but I only found a really sad version someone filmed with their video camera at the movie theater, so here it is on apple.com/trailers below:

Pirates 2.

1 comment:

Jon said...

a lot of times trailers will have their own soundtrack. sometimes clips are combined from the feature's soundtrack. the sound design (effects, ambient noises, etc), however, is almost always unique to the trailer.