Here are 10 tips to help you compose better trailer music and get your tracks placed in Hollywood trailers.

The trailer music industry is a quite small, but daunting industry – you’re making music for Hollywood trailers, for those big blockbuster movies and games. And if you give it your best when producing music for trailers, and you do it successfully, the reward can be very significant.

So if you’re an aspiring trailer music composer, and want to get your music locked in some of the biggest movie trailers and spots, keep reading. Because here are 10 of my best tips that have helped me get my music and sound design into big trailers and tv spots (Warcraft, Independence Day 2, Starcraft 2, Call of Duty, etc).

As a disclaimer for this article, I am focusing on trailer music that actually gets placed in trailers, resulting in big sums of cash for the composer. You can compose trailer music for the fun of it without any intention of getting licenses, and that’s perfectly fine, but this will be for the composers who want to make a living off it.

But if you have it in your mind to publish your music through a trailer music publisher who can get it in front of trailer houses, and eventually into the actual trailers, this will help you make music they would want to license.

Good luck! See you on the big cinema screen.