This week’s Trailaurality blog explores the official teaser trailer for Dune: Part Three. Hans Zimmer’s scores for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films have made exciting and creative uses of layered vocals (check out his theme for the Bene Gesserit), so it rings true that the music in this trailer features humming, chanting, and shouting. The trailer’s cut in three parts, each part more intense than the previous. 

The official trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping dropped on April 13th, and it’s a clear shift. The franchise that blended James Newton Howard’s careful orchestration with curated alt and folk soundtracks has just released a remixed The Who track from 1973 over its first full-length trailer, announcing this isn’t your parents’ Hunger Games. Or, maybe rather it’s your grandparents’ Hunger Games—being as it is a prequel set twenty four years before the original, and the aesthetic definitely leans 70s here.

Aleasha Harris has adapted her award-winning 2018 play Is God Is into a thriller film and it looks and sounds intense. Gritty, distorted bass guitar comes in with a low register riff at 0:03 and even though we see on screen a black and white shot of two young girls (Racine and Anaia) hugging on a park bench, the music foreshadows conflict.