One of the leaders in providing, producing and scoring trailer music is APM Music and the over 30 libraries we represent.

Having built strong relationships within the Trailer and Film/TV community for over 25 years, APM Music has had thousands of placements in Films, TV, Trailers and overall Theatrical Marketing Campaigns.

The Studios and Trailer houses like to refer to a good trailer as a "two minute advertisement". The action and dialogue might become the core part of the trailer, but the pacing and conveyed emotions are often dictated by the music. It is important for the music to be able to support and sustain the energy presented in the visuals. The music chosen for a trailer, along with visuals edited together, form an important basis for branding the film's identity and getting people into theatre seats. A trailer score will in some ways mimic the score of a film, and can be quite intricate. There might be five, six, seven cues trying to get you from the beginning to the end.

There are a number of different categories of trailers, from teasers that might come out a year or more in advance of the film and contain little or no footage from the actual film to product reels designed to excite exhibitors; conventional three- to four-minute trailers, each one perhaps highlighting different aspects of a film; and, 30- and 60-second commercials for different TV market/audiences. Trailer supervisors, editors and producers consistently look to APM's Trailer Music catalog to match their theatrical marketing campaign and music needs.

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