How composer Ursine Vulpine decides what the year’s biggest movie trailers will sound like
Every now and again, a movie trailer comes along that really grabs your attention. It’s not just the visuals that flash by on-screen or the actors that make it stick in your head — it’s the music. More often than not, it’s music that’s been commissioned for the trailer, composed by people like Frederick Lloyd. Over the last couple of years, he’s been responsible for the trailer music for some of Hollywood’s biggest films.
You’ve probably heard his work without knowing it: his music is featured in trailers for Mad Max: Fury Road, Alien: Covenant, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, just to name a few.
Lloyd explains that he fell into composing trailer music by happy accident, and that his goal was — and remains…
