Music

My initial thoughts toward music was that it was not needed as I thought the section of Kennedy's speech that I had chosen was very strong and had some powerful quotes in there so I thought it would work on it's own. However after my first bits of editing I the trailer just seemed a bit bare as if the something missing with this in mind I decided to try a find a suitable track for the trailer that went with the speech. 

I searched for a while initially searching for and looking at 'inspirational music' and 'dramatic music' none of the ones I found from this really went with the speech especially the pace of the speech and most were really over dramatic which was not really what I was going for. Next I looked at classical music to see if any of these fitted I looked at a number of Richard Wagner pieces such as death march some of these had sections that I thought would work also these pieces had death as a theme and seeing a JFK is now dead it suited as a backdrop. 

Finally I looked at some film soundtracks and there composers here I found Thomas Newman and a piece of his called hauntingly beautiful which for me seemed to suit perfectly as it was at the right pace to go with the speech and also it was not too over empowering on the speech so I decided to go with this piece. Once I heard it with the speech I was convinced because it went over the speech really well in my opinion and suited the feel I want my trailer to have.