21 May, 2011
Stop for a moment. When was the last time, that you remember, a game trailer generated so much talk not only because of its content, but also because of its music? As of right now, Dead Island‘s poignant trailer illustrating a family vacation gone horribly wrong has generated more than 4 million views. Admit it, this one tugged at your heart strings, and you’re not the only one who felt this way.
Had the music in the trailer been any different, we probably would have felt something else. Enter Giles Lamb, the composer for Dead Island and the one responsible for taking you on an emotional ride in just 3 minutes.
In an interview with T3 Magazine, Lamb described the opportunity to work on the trailer’s music as a “rare and exciting” one. “From a music perspective, it was a rare and exciting opportunity,” said Lamb, “as it was clear that music was going to be at least 50% of the experience and completely drive the emotional context of the film.”
As far as we’re all concerned, he did his job and he did it well. Having scored for other trailers such as Crysis 2, Lamb described working on Dead Island‘s as being the complete opposite of his other works, where the music took a backseat to stunning visuals and Michael Bay-esque explosions. “…more often the music does a job of underpinning the visuals creating impact and often being very subliminal,” Lamb explained. “Dead Island was the opposite, the music is the thing that locks you in and the slow and deeply emotional music contrasting with the brutal visuals gives the film its power.”
Want to see it for yourself? Watch it, just one more time:
With user comments ranging from absolute disbelief at being caught expressing emotions to a video game trailer and the masculine populace claiming to cry “big manly tears,” it’s quite clear that Lamb’s audio magic worked on just about all of us.
Dead Island certainly didn’t stop there, as they also released their newest trailer a few days ago, entitled “Tragedy Hits Paradise.” Following the same formula as the first trailer, a minimum of sound effects were used. Almost the whole entire audio of the latest trailer was, once again, music, and it still gives us that eerily haunting and tragic emotion that has helped the game land a nomination for Most Anticipatd Game at E3 2011 by CVG.
Watch “Tragedy Hits Paradise”:
Read Giles Lamb’s full interview with T3 Magazine.
Want to know more about Dead Island? Check out the official website for more information on the game.
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