Christophe Beck who composes the music for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Marco Beltrami who has scored the Scream Trilogy, The Faculty, and Mimic. I have worked with these two for many years and have learned a lot from them about composing and the business of music. I can and do compose it all. I write music for film trailers as well. I composed the music for the feature film trailers The Imposter and The Yards .
Trailers always have a variety of styles thrown in.
On one of them I had to do a piece that sounded like Moby. The other trailer had a heavy dance tune playing that I had to create a piece for. Because I am a schooled composer, that is I went through a University Composition and Theory degree, I feel it helps you prepare for all the different styles of music. It s much harder for a guy who has played guitar all his life to suddenly write an orchestral piece. I think it makes me a more rounded composer.